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Senator Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) bill that threatens tens of thousands of products has been officially introduced. We need all hands on deck to oppose it. Action warning!
Senator Dick Durbin has launched his supplement attack with his “Dietary Supplements List Act of 2022” with Senator Mike Braun (R-IN). This law threatens your ability to access the supplements you depend on to stay healthy. We need to send a strong message to Congress that this is bad for consumers, bad for health and bad for the economy.
The bill threatens fines and prison sentences for companies that do not comply with the rules. If a company does not provide the correct information, in the correct form, on the correct date, the supplement will be considered misbranded. For the first offense, violators can face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine; for the second offense, offenders can face three years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Considering the safety record of supplements described below, the punishments here hardly seem to fit the crime.
This bill creates a lose-lose situation for consumers and supplements businesses: if businesses don’t comply, they face fines and jail time; If they comply, companies are orchestrating their own demise by giving the FDA the list it needs sweep the market of as many as 41,000 supplements that do not meet the agency’s requirements exaggerated (and incomplete) guidelines for “new supplements”.. Supplement companies lose, the economy suffers, and consumers lose access to essential health products.
It’s bad, but it might not even be the biggest threat to your supplements right now. In addition, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is independently moving forward with plans to add a similar mandatory product registration provision for supplements to the prescription reauthorization. Drug User Compensation Act to be adopted by the end of September. So Durbin’s policy is twice as likely to succeed because it is on two different paths.
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Why is more additional regulation such a priority for these federal authorities? Supplements are overwhelmingly safe. According to the FDAIn 2021, the agency received 2,400 reports of adverse events related to dietary supplements. To put this into context, according to the FDA’s adverse drug reaction databasethe FDA received a total of 2,333,453 adverse event reports in 2021. This means that dietary supplements account for 0.1% of adverse event reports to the FDA. National reports consistently show this zero deaths from dietary supplements; According to the FDA database, drugs have killed 187,750 Americans in 2021 alone.
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