GMO Labeling Supporters Don't Want Their Own Products Labeled

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GMO labeling supporter doesn’t want his products labeled.

One of the big talking points by anti-GMO advocates is if GMO products are safe, why are companies afraid to label them? Well, apparently what’s good for the GMO goose is not good for the anti-GMO gander.

Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois introduced an amendment to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Safety and Innovation Act which would require health supplement companies to list the ingredients of the products on the label. That’s it. No testing, just labeling and registering. The idea is that should any health problems arise, the FDA will have the information to track down the source of the problem. The Durbin amendment lost but could be brought up again.

Well, the supplement industry seems to have a bit of a problem with this. They don’t want their products labeled. And who is leading the charge? Why it’s our very own Dr. Mercola, the guy whom prominent biologist Steven Salzberg, called “the 21st-century equivalent of a snake-oil salesman.”

Mercola is the largest contributor, $800k, to the California GMO labeling law campaign. The campaign has various groups aligned with it with names like “The Right to Know” and “Just Label it.”

The supporters claim that a simple label is not that big of a deal and will not cause any financial hardship on the companies. Mercola says the result of labeling would create financial hardships on supplement selling companies, “granting the FDA more power to regulate supplements as if they were drugs, effectively putting supplement companies out of business.” Wait, it’s just a label, right?

And, no, it doesn’t treat them like drugs. There is no testing involved for approval. Durbin’s amendment simply requires the listing of ingredients.

Why are Mercola and the rest of the supplement industry so vehemently against this amendment? All it requires, to repeat once more, is to list the ingredients on the label. Why is Mercola so against the Right to Know?

It just might be if the ingredients are listed, it could show their supplements don’t have any benefits, or don’t have the benefits that a company claims they do. Mercola has already been cited three times by the FDA for making false and misleading claims.

The rest of the article is here:

https://theprogressivecontrarian.com...ducts-labeled/

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I've been writing letters and making phone calls to my representatives, to protect my ability to purchase supplements without a prescription for nearly 30 years, over and over and over again. Senator Durbin and others continue to propose legislation that would move the USA in the direction of the EU regarding health care supplements, and I find this disturbing. Each time such an attempt has been made over these years, the American public has successfully stopped such legislation from passing by contacting our representatives. It is time to do so again. To express your concern to your representatives, go to: https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site...Action&id=1627
I hope this article supports understanding of what is happening and why I share Dr. Mercola's perspective on this issue.

“Regulate Supplements Like Drugs!”: Senator Durbin on NPR

November 19, 2013

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In just under five minutes, he reveals his plan, which would effectively eliminate supplements from the shelves. Action Alert!

We’ve told you before about Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) Dietary Supplement Labeling Act. Recently, he went on National Public Radio’s Science Friday to drum up support for this dishonest bill.

Sen. Durbin’s strategy has been to paint the dietary supplement industry as under-regulated and over-influential, blocking small, reasonable regulatory changes that would protect vulnerable consumers. (This, of course, is patently false, as we’ve proven over and over.) Don’t be deceived by the spin. The proposed changes are neither small nor reasonable.

The NPR interview was important because the senator came out of the shadows to speak on the record. By doing so, he demonstrated his fundamental (or perhaps willful) lack of understanding about the natural health industry, dietary supplements, their regulation, and even his own legislation. He also fully revealed his intentions for nutritional supplements—that they be regulated like drugs!

Here are some of the highlights from the full transcript:

[The bill requires supplement manufacturers to] provide the FDA with…some basic information about…whether there’s any chemical included in the product that might interact with other drugs or cause some difficulty. It’s just basic information.

Continue article online at https://www.anh-usa.org/senator-durbin-on-npr/

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https://theprogressivecontrarian.com...ducts-labeled/