It is a New Year, and a new opportunity for Congress to
stand up in support of our health freedoms!
Urge Your Representative to Support H.R. 2117, The Health Freedom Protection
Act!
ACTION ALERT: WASHINGTON, January 9, 2008 - We are in the thick of an election
year and many of the candidates for President are clamoring to offer health
policies that simply maintain the status quo and enable the pharmaceutical
industry to maintain its stranglehold on consumers. These same candidates would
also allow the FDA to continue to shirk its duty to protect consumers from the
often dangerous or lethal drugs big pharma is all too eager to push on the
public. It is especially important at this time for our elected representatives
to support policy and legislation that puts consumers in control of their own
health decisions.
That is why it is critical that you urge your Representative to co-sponsor Ron
Paul's Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117. With your help we can surpass
the level of support the bill enjoyed in the 109th session, and bring it to the
floor for a vote.
Click here to email your Congressperson to co-sponsor H.R. 2117!
The FDA's approval process for informational labeling of food-based health
claims has been so slow and uncertain that very little meaningful health
information is making its way to food and dietary supplement consumers. Why
does the FDA ban speech that can heal and save lives? Many dietary ingredients
have therapeutic effects, yet telling the truth about those effects in the
market can land you in jail. The Food and Drug Administration makes it next to
impossible to assert any claim that a supplement or nutrient has the potential
to positively affect a person's health.
The Federal Trade Commission prosecutes parties who make advertising claims
about the effects of foods and nutrients on the body. It does not limit those
prosecutions to parties that actually deceive consumers. It also does not
limit those prosecutions to products that fail to perform as advertised. In
short, in this standardless environment, the FTC can exercise a great deal of
discretion to determine what claims are deceptive and which ones are valid. No
one in this country should be held by the government to be a deceptive
advertiser unless the government proves that consumers have in fact been
deceived.
Click here to tell your Representative you want to make your own health choices!
Ron Paul's Health Freedom Protection Act, a bill first introduced in the U.S.
House of Representatives in 2005, would end FDA and FTC censorship and give
consumers access to truthful, non-misleading health information by making it
easier for manufacturers of vitamins, supplements, and other foods to display
health claims on product labels. H.R. 2117 was re-introduced in the House on
Wednesday, May 2, 2007, but has not yet attained the level of support it
enjoyed in the last Congressional session.
That is why it is important to acknowledge those in Congress who, by
co-sponsoring the Health Freedom Protection Act in this session, have cast
their votes in support of consumers and our access to the information we need
to make our own choices about our health.
Citizens for Health applauds the following Representatives and their courage in
standing up in support of our freedom to control our health decisions (the
dates following their names indicate when they became a co-sponsor):
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14]
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] - 5/2/2007
Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] - 5/2/2007
Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [OR-4] - 6/8/2007
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] - 5/2/2007
Rep Fortuno, Luis G. [PR] - 6/8/2007
Rep Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. [NY-29] - 6/15/2007
Rep Musgrave, Marilyn N. [CO-4] - 8/3/2007
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] - 12/18/2007
Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] - 5/2/2007
Will your Representative be the next one to add his/her name to this list? This
is your chance to let Congress know you will not sit back while our government
works to keep important health information from consumers.
Click here and urge your Representative to Support the Health Freedom
Protection Act today!
Now, as always, it is your action and your support which makes the success of
our campaigns possible - we couldn't do it without you.
Thanks for taking action!
The Citizens for Health Team
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