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Supplements deserve their own system of regulation

You will probably get a little deja vu when you read the subject of this alert. Since this is not the first - or second - time Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has tried to pass his pet bill, now called S. 1425, the Dietary Supplement Labeling Act of 2013.
This is his third crack at it! His first try was in 2011, just before the sleepy holiday weekend news cycle.
For his second attempt, in 2012 he tried to add it as an amendment to the then-pending FDA Safety and Innovation Act (S.3187).
Call your Senator, Tom Coburn (202-224-5754) or James Inhofe (202-224-4721) and tell him "My Supplements Are Safe" - Vote "NO" on S. 1425!
Apparently he, and his co-sponsor Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), believe that "the third time's the charm" for sneaking this pernicious legislation into law - but charmed, we are not.
Supplements deserve their own system of regulation - and that's the point. Such a system already exists thanks to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), and it has done a more than adequate job protecting consumers largely due to supplement companies' compliance with, and support of, that system.
Put simply: At best, S. 1425 is a bad bill, albeit with good intentions. At worst, it uses recent attacks on supplement safety as an excuse to take another crack at imposing unnecessary regulations on the dietary supplement industry, which has demonstrated time and again its ability to ensure the safety of its products.