Big Pharma Wants to Put an End to Vitamins and Supplements

July 21, 2022 Pytha

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One of the latest attempts to thwart your ability to access nutritional supplements comes in the form of draft legislation that would require premarket approval for dietary supplements. In short, it would require supplements — which are food — to undergo the same approval process as drugs
In the past, the drug industry and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tried to ban certain supplements, including vitamin B6 and N-acetylcysteine (NAC), by reclassifying them as new drugs
Another strategy the drug industry has been using to gain a monopoly over the supplement industry is to buy up supplement brands. Just 14 mega corporations — many of them drug companies — now own more than 100 of the most popular supplement brands on the market
This monopoly over the supplement industry gives drug companies enormous regulatory influence, and that’s a way by which they could eliminate independent supplement makers who can’t afford to put their products through the drug approval process. Indeed, it seems that’s what the Durbin-Braun premarket approval proposal is trying to accomplish
Take action to protect widespread access to dietary supplements. Contact your Senators and urge them to oppose the Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2022, and its inclusion in the FDA Safety Landmark Advancements Act https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/07/19/supplement-industry-big-pharma.aspx?ui=f994b87e6f858713e56d93401d7d460b44803b196bc4b7709c9bae35a9672b96&sd=20210718&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20220719&mid=DM1217334&rid=1552373305