The Senate wants to take my supplements away!!!???

paperm313

Anyone know what this means? I havent read much into it yet

http://www.anh-usa.org/disastrous-durbin-anti-supplement-amendment-just-offered-help-stop-it/?csm=270833862&csc=1483458&csa=270836318&csu=1483610

maricash

The link you provided is to an action alert from a group specifically lobbying against this bill. I found it somewhat difficult to tell from the text exactly what this amendment would do. I did find one article that presented what seemed to be a fairly balanced description of what's happening: http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/news/2012/05/durbin-amendment-eyes-registration.aspx

According to that link: "The amendment . . . would mandate specific information be supplied to FDA, including a description, list of ingredients and label (copy) for each supplement, updated for each new, reformulated or discontinued product."

The Senate is not trying to take your supplements away, they just want the manufacturers of supplements to have to tell you exactly what it is you are buying. The concern is that, if an ingredient used in one (or many) supplements is found to be dangerous, the current system allows no means to track which products contain that ingredient.