DÉJÀ VU – Senator Dick Durban Once Again Attacks Supplements!

Scott Tips, JD

In a well-orchestrated attack that should fool no one, and that as usual occurs late in the week as people leave for their weekends, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has re-introduced his previously lapsed and ill-fated bill, the "Dietary Supplement Labeling Act" (then S.1310, and now as S.1425), in yet another attempt to shut down the dietary-supplement industry through a series of gradually suffocating laws, rules, and regulations that will do not one ounce of good but will instead price supplements out of the reach of poor and lower-income persons, at least of those supplements that remain should his bill be enacted.

​After the media assault by Dr. Offit with his silly and obvious book attacking alternative medicine (see my blog "Do You Believe In Offit?" posting of July 4, 2013, as well as other public assaults on the safety of vitamins and their efficacy, the Powers that Be have decided that the American public has been sufficiently softened up so that anti-supplement forces (read Big Pharmaceutical companies and medical doctors) can come in for the kill with Tricky Dick Durbin and his S.1425.