. . . unless you make your voice heard NOW! There hasn't been anything this dangerous to the alternative health industry in 17 years. Big Pharma's friends in the Senate and the FDA have launched a major assault on your health freedom and our ability at Beyond Health to function as a small business engaged in selling supplements. On July 1st, Senator Dick Durbin introduced S. 1310, the "Dietary Supplement Labeling Act of 2011." The impact of this legislation would be to impose very expensive and unnecessary requirements on supplement companies to prove ingredients in their products are safe. In a one-two punch, the FDA then issued a draft guidance statement on supplement ingredient approval processes with a similar intent. That intent, although it purports to be protecting consumer safety, is to make the supplement ingredient approval process so cumbersome and expensive that it will drive small and medium-sized supplement companies out of business. It will also drive up prices that the…

. . . more you can do on the above issue S. 1310 is currently "in committee." It is standard practice that when bills are introduced in either the Senate or the House of Representatives they are sent to a special committee made up of Senators (or Representatives) to study the bill and then come back to the whole group with recommendations. Since the committees receive hundreds of bills, many bills never get reviewed. Instead they "die in committee," and need to be reintroduced the following year. S. 1310 has been sent to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. If any of your state senators sit on this Committee, contact them and let them know of your opposition.  The members of the Committee are: Alaska - Lisa Murkowski (R) Arizona - John McCain (R) Colorado - Michael Bennet (D) Connecticut - Richard Blumenthal (D) (co-sponsor of S. 1310) Georgia - Johnny Isakson (R) Illinois - Mark Kirk (R) Iowa - Tom Harkin (D), Chairman of the Commit…