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ACTION ALERT |
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TAKE ACTION:
Washington, D.C., December 17, 2007 - Citizens for Health has joined with the American Herbal Products Association in opposing a petition filed with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the use of ionizing radiation for the control of microbial contamination on dietary supplements and dietary ingredients. More...
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CURRENT LEGISLATION |
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H.R. 1363 -- The Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2007. Introduced by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, this act would update out of date nutritional standards in our schools, and re-define "food of minimal nutritional value."
S.770-- Food Stamp Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act. This legislation would allow recipients of food stamps to purchase vitamin and mineral supplements with their benefits.
S.762-- A bill to include dehydroepiandrosterone as an anabolic steroid. This bill
would ban the substance dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) under the Controlled Substances Act, despite the fact that DHEA was specifically exempted from regulation under legislation enacted into law in 2004.
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Truth Advocate
Neil E. Levin, CCN, DANLA
As one of the most effective industry champions, NOW's Truth Advocate, Neil Levin, CCN, DANLA is a 20-year industry veteran who responds to negative media stories in detail, using his scientific and nutritional knowledge and credentials to put clinical studies in perspective and correct inaccurate media representations. Neil is also active in advocacy work, leading some of our national and state lobbying efforts.
Publications and Audio Presentations by Neil Levin
THE REAL DEAL is a monthly audio series presented by Neil Levin. Each monthly presentation offers valuable health information to help you understand the real deal about dietary supplements and the supplement industry.
HONEST NUTRITION is a non-commercial website featuring articles written by or quoting Neil on nutritional topics: natural health, health freedom, dietary supplements (vitamins, herbs), organic and biotech food, poorly conducted studies, misleading press, etc.
ARTICLE ARCHIVES will provide you with a researched data on a variety of health related topics.
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VOICE YOUR OPINION! |
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Logon to the NNFA web site, a direct gateway to Congress, regulatory agencies and others in the federal government. |
| Visit the Citizens for Health website at www.citizens.org, designed for consumers to express their opinions and take action on current regulatory and legislative issues related to dietary supplements. |
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NEIL RESPONDS |
11/29/2007
"As a watchdog for clinical studies that are misrepresented or poorly done, it is obvious to me that your writers cherry-picked negative studies that were heavily criticized, some contradicted by more robust data or not able to be replicated, and some done with very sick people where the results were admittedly not applicable to healthy populations."
11/07/2007
"While “The Vitamin Myth” did responsibly quote experts refuting some negative reports emphasized in the article, the overall tone was sensationalist and negative, greatly exaggerating supposed risks. Vitamins may be among the safest substances known, typically causing no deaths in any given year. The article emphasized heavily-criticized single reports in preference to more rigorous published research contradicting the alleged dangers (for example, of vitamin E), a common media error."
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