Our vitamin supplements are soon to be regulated??

[AJamericanDiva]

Ladies, a lot of us take vitamins to enhance our hair health and well being. Please take the time and send a letter to your state officials protesting the regulation of supplements. I've included the link that puts the letter together for you. All you have to do is type in your zip code, so they can send it to your government official and then fill in your info. The letter is typed and you can add anything else you'd like. Please speak up and make our voices heard or there will not be anymore vitamin challenges or anything else of that sort!!!! Thanks in advance!

National Nutritional Foods Association

 

[JaneiR36]

Can you tell us why the supplements being "regulated" and what does this mean? Would this affect all supplements or just some of them? Is this information available in the link you provided? I just want to know before clicking to sign the petition.

 

[AJamericanDiva]

When you go to the site, it definitely gives your more info on what's going on and it tells what exactly propostion S.722 is and what it is intended to do. This is quoted from the page.

OPPOSE S. 722

The Food and Drug Administration must not be granted new and unprecedented authority to subject safe and beneficial products to additional and unnecessary scrutiny.
This bill would subject nearly all vitamins, minerals, herbal products and other supplements to a level of scrutiny that is both unwarranted and unnecessary. Products that have been used safely for hundreds – and in some cases, thousands – of years would be subject to clinical evaluation using standards that are at the complete discretion of the FDA. Click here to view S. 722.

The government must not be allowed to limit the freedom of choice of American consumers when it comes to their health.
By questioning the safety of any dietary supplement that receives even one complaint, hundreds of products that have been safely and beneficially used could be removed from the marketplace. Under this new legislation, the FDA has complete discretion to make this determination, regardless of whether the product was used under conditions cautioned against by the manufacturer on the label.

The government must not be allowed to single-out dietary supplements.
By almost every measure, and by a wide margin, dietary supplements can be used more safely than conventional foods and OTC drugs. Yet this legislation exempts foods in these product categories from being classified as stimulants. Specifically, the bill unfairly excludes the most common "stimulant" ingredient in foods – caffeine.

The part about this that bothered me is that if the gov. got as much as one complaint about a supplement, then they could pull them off the shelf. Imagine someone complaining to the government that a high dosage of biotin made them itchy.... off the shelves it would go until they could do research, etc.

I think the individual should be judge and juror rather than a complaint causing something to be yanked... some people rave how a supplement caused their hair to grow, skin to glow and others complained about the opposite. Know what I mean? It doesn't matter if the user followed the instructions on the bottle or not. If there is a complaint, irregardless of misuse, it could be pulled.

 

[CICI24]

I already sent my letters. about 2 months ago.

 

[AJamericanDiva]

The bad thing is that I've been knowing about this for months and have postponed responding... "Oh, tomorrow I will." You know how that goes. I was like, "Use it or lose it!" and finally did it. Everything was already typed for a lazy girl like me. No excuses!!!

 

[miss_brown]

Hey, thanks for bringing this back up! I had forgotten already. Anyway, I just sent my emails!

Ladies, if you have not already done so and are a vitamin feind like me

, please send your emails asap. This literally took 30 seconds.

 

[AJamericanDiva]

Thanks so much for taking the time to send in your email. The fact that it took less than a minute was incentive enough to do it. I hope other members will send theirs in as well if they haven't done so already.