(NaturalNews) Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) has introduced a new bill called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) of 2010 (S. 3002), that, if enacted, would severely curtail free access to dietary supplements. Cosponsored by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota), the bill would essentially give the FDA full control over the supplement industry.

Most of the industrialized world has incredibly restrictive laws governing supplements. People worldwide often purchase supplements from the U.S. because they are freely available at low costs.

All of this could change, however, if DSSA passes. DSSA would change key sections of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C), undoing protections in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, effectively eliminating free access to supplements.

The importance of DSHEA
The passage of DSHEA resulted from millions of Americans who worked hard to reinforce their freedom to buy and sell supplements. At the time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was alleging that nutrients like CoQ10 and selenium were dangerous and should be pulled from the market.

Though weak in some areas, DSHEA established a foundation upon which free access to dietary supplements would be protected from attacks by drug companies and the FDA.

What prompted DSSA?
McCain’s DSSA bill emerged in response to illegal steroid use among Major League Baseball players. Likely instigated by pharmaceutical interests, the bill is being posited as necessary to prevent supplement adulteration.

The FDA already has the power to pull supplements from the market that are contaminated but it has not been doing its job. DSSA is not only unnecessary, but it would actually reward the FDA for its failures. DSSA would also strip DSHEA and give full control of the supplement industry to the FDA.

Registration requirements
DSSA would mandate that all supplement companies register with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the FDA. Any company that refuses to register and comply with HHS would be subject to hefty fines, the classification of its products as “adulterated”, and their removal from the market. The new system would burden manufacturers with significant new costs that would cause supplement prices to increase. A new taxpayer-funded bureaucracy would also be created to conduct inspections and oversee compliance.

Reporting requirements
DSSA would require all “non-serious adverse events” received by supplement companies to be reported to the government, regardless of whether or not the events are related to the supplements for which they are submitted. Pharmaceutical companies would have access to these reports which they could use to petition the FDA to have supplements removed from the market. The FDA could also arbitrarily pull supplements from the market if it believes it has “reasonable probability” that there may be a problem.

FDA would decide which supplements are legal
Perhaps the most chilling aspect of DSSA is that it would allow the HHS Secretary to establish a list of permitted supplements. Reversing common law, which assumes all is legal unless restricted, DSSA would allow only what is permitted to be legal.

In a nutshell, DSSA would increase supplement costs for consumers, grant incredible new power over the supplement industry to the FDA, and drastically limit the availability of supplements. Drug companies could also use the bill to remove supplements from the market, patent them, and sell them as drugs!

It is absolutely critical to contact your Congressmen and oppose this bill. LifeExtension Magazine has a convenient “Action Alert” page in which to do so.

it’s soon the be the leading cause of death in America. Yet most people still regard it as a mystery.  The “remission rates” (cancer comes back) for the only treatment available at United States hospitals (chemotherapy) are rediculously high.  Chemo is like standing in nuclear fallout to kill a tick on your arm. There are obviously, obviously better ways of combatting cancer.

Harry Hoxsey helped many beat cancer with herbs alone.

Gerson Therapy has great results.

Apricot seeds are an excellent preventative.

There are many others.  The problem isn’t judging what works and what doesn’t, they all do to a degree and are ideally used in concert.  The problem is people lack the courage to stand up to their doctors and demand better results than chemotherapy. Because we’ve been paying health insurance bills for so long. Because we don’t understand how our bodies work.  Because we trust the expensive machines at the hospital more than our own instincts.  I’m not asking you to trust me. I’m asking you to trust yourself.

I wondered for a long time why of all the thousands of herbs and spices in the world,  only two have found their way onto every table: salt and pepper. I knew it had to be about more than taste and I think I’ve figured it out.

Salt in its original form (sun dried sea salt) contains an abundance of minerals, not just sodium. And as I mention in my discussion of kelp, the body requires a wide variety of minerals in specific ratios to function properly. So salt was the first mineral supplement. Salt sold at supermarkets now contains only sodium, which causes high blood pressure without its partner, potassium. Kelp is still a superior nutritional supplement because of its organic compounds like  fucoidian that regrettably give it a fishy taste many people dislike, which is why salt won its place on the table.

Pepper contains bioperine which increases the body’s ability to absorb the nutrition of the foods we eat. This makes it an excellent companion to almost any meal. However, cayenne pepper does this and much more.

So if it were up to me, there would be kelp granules and cayenne powder on every table.

The swine\bird flu vaccine contains a squalene adjuvant, the same one the U.S. military unofficially used on soldiers in the anthrax vaccine and is a contributing cause of Gulf War Syndrome. For excellent research proving this, click here.

Squalene is actually a natural fat that makes up many parts of our bodies. But when it is injected into the body in a vaccine, the body decides it is a foreign invader and attacks it everywhere for the remainder of the person’s lifetime. In other words, the immune system begins to attack the body itself. The general term for it is autoimmune disease. The reason you haven’t heard much about it from the people already vaccinated and why it was approved by the FDA, is the symptoms of autoimmune disease are subtle and can take up to a decade to manifest: arthritis, rashes, migraine headaches, non-healing skin lesions, ulcers, memory loss, mood changes, anemia, chronic fatigue, night sweats and low grade fevers. Do you really want to deal with symptoms like that for some minor protection against a flu? It’s a flu people, not AIDS.

I want to counter the white lie told by the FDA that United States swine flu vaccines do not contain squalene. The vaccine makers have simply changed a molecule or two on their adjuvants so they’re 95% squalene, but they can call it by another name, like Novartis’s MF59.