NEW STRATEGY IN THE NUTRITION WARS!
JULY 19, 2011. Well, well. We might just have something here!
A few days ago, I wrote a piece (link) detailing the current threat to nutritional supplements posed by:
the FDA NIDA Guidelines 2011,
the Food Safety Modernization Act 2011,
and the new Dick Durbin bill now in committee (S.1310 – Dietary Supplement Labeling Bill 2011).
I suggested strategies. One was: contact nutritional companies you do business with as a customer, and demand action on their part.
These companies are apparently convinced everything is all right and their trade organizations and lobbyists are doing a swell job representing them in Washington.
So one reader took me up on my suggestion. She called a supplement company and had an unpleasant conversation with a rep, who told her, guess what?
These matters are handled by nutritional trade organizations, and the Durbin bill is no threat, and she, the customer, is succumbing to scare tactics.
Really?
So my suggestion to her (and to you) is this: call your favorite nutritional company, and if you get such bland assurances, write an OPEN LETTER TO THAT NUTRITIONAL COMPANY and email it out far and wide and post it somewhere. In the letter, demand that the company explain exactly HOW AND WHY new FDA regulations, the Food Safety Law, and the Durbin bill are NO THREAT to them or us. Get it?
I have a feeling this would stir some action and finally open up the can of worms that has been festering under the surface.
As in: let’s drag the debate out in the open. Let’s put cards on the table. You bring your experts, I’ll bring mine.
Because you see, as far as I can tell, the main problem here is that the immediate targets of the FDA, Durbin, and the new Food Safety law—WHICH ARE THE NUTRITIONAL COMPANIES—don’t see this as a problem. Or don’t want to.
And as long as those companies are resting secure in their illusory nook, our side in the war is going to be at a major disadvantage.
Now, if you follow my advice, email me with specifics and details. I want to know how it’s working.
Click here for my prior article on the subject.
JON RAPPOPORT