What would the natural health industry be like without Citizens For Health?
Consider how different the outcome of the following stories might be if Citizens For Health did not exist:
1992: Citizens for Health (CFH) updated members hourly on the FDA’s raid of the clinic of Dr. Jonathan Wright, MD in Kent, Washington, on May 2. The effort galvanized citizens nationwide, producing so many faxes to the White House that it could not conduct business. CFH’s work resulted in a documentary that won the top prize at the New York Film Festival that year from among 12,000 submissions.
1994: CFH led the successful effort to pass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). Sen. Orrin Hatch commented: “I want to cite the dedicated efforts of Citizens for Health, whose thousands of members have worked tirelessly and unselfishly to make this an informed and successful debate. There is no question in my mind that the work of this citizen army makes today’s victory possible.”
1995: Working with the Organic Trade Association, CFH was able to stop the Department of Agriculture from debasing the definition of “organic.” Over a period of four months, nearly 300,000 communications were directed to the DOA protesting the proposal. The Secretary at the time said it was the largest number of comments the Department has ever received on any proposed regulation.
1999: FDA Commissioner Dr. Jane Henney acknowledged the success of CFH’s “Write to Know” Campaign, which generated over 175,000 comments opposing the FDA’s efforts to redefine disease and restrict information on dietary supplement labels.
2003-4: The Campaign for Better Health was launched with its “Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools” Campaign, a grassroots movement of citizens, community leaders and socially-minded businesses dedicated to nutritious food and protecting children’s health.
2006: CFH became a founding member of the World Health Freedom Assembly, a collection of organizations from around the world sharing a commitment to health freedom.
2006: Largely thanks to several thousand letters sent to legislators through a Citizens for Health action campaign via a consumer-industry coalition supporting its passage, the “AER bill” (The Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act”) cleared through the U.S. House of Representatives at 3:06 am on December 9th, 2006.
2007: CFH joined the National Health Freedom Coalition and the Patient Privacy Coalition.
2007: CFH members helped block New York legislation that attempted to restrict the use of dietary supplements.
2008: CFH members helped stop efforts in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Missouri to ban labeling of dairy containing rBGH/rBST, an artificial growth hormone given to cows to produce more milk. This effort includes CFH successful efforts to block a Monsanto-backed regulation related to GMO labeling.
2009: CFH and members in California are working to stop the aerial spraying of pesticides.
Currently: The Grassroots Action and Information Network (GAIN) is launched. GAIN is an effort by CFH, led by CFH Founder Joe Bassett to organize producers, distributors, retailers and consumers of dietary supplements and other healthy foods into state chapters to address issues of importance to the natural health and wellness community.
CFH and its members successfully advocated for improvements to the “Food Safety and Modernization Act” (S. 510), and continue pressure on both houses of Congress so that the final bill sent to the President meets the standards of CFH, its members, and the natural health and wellness community
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