Citizens for Health commends Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) for introducing Senate Bill 3546, the “Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Act,” a bill that will require manufacturers to notify the FDA of all serious adverse events (AEs) for over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and dietary supplements reported to them. Send a letter to your Senators in support of this bill today.
Joining with other consumer groups and trade associations in supporting this bill, Citizens for Health also thanks the dietary supplement industry for having been such a responsible sector over the years by working hard to voluntarily log and submit the comparatively small number of serious adverse events (side effects) that may (or may not) have been definitively associated with the use of the dietary supplements but which have been submitted in good faith regardless.
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Not only does the bill show a serious commitment to consumer safety and protection by the dietary supplement industry - it also includes appropriate safeguards so that unjustified burdens are not placed on responsible companies. Read the letter and act today!
This bill emphasizes how well regulated the dietary supplement industry actually is and how committed supplement companies already are to safety and to making the existing regulations work more effectively.
Citizens for Health looks forward to the passage of this bill in the Senate and encourages the House of Representatives to take similar steps. The bill was expected to go to the Senate floor for a vote in mid-July.
Ask your Senators to co-sponsor S.B. 3546 today! Please also ask your Representative to support the House version of this when it is introduced.
Read more on this from the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN).
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