Sep 162011
 

The September 13, 2011 edition of HumanEvents.com has just published an OpEd co-authored by myself and Michelle Minton of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, “Durbin’s Bill Is Dietary Paternalism“.

Here is the opening:

“You can’t have that. It’s not good for you.”

We’ve all heard parents say that to their children at the grocery store checkout line countless times. While it may be appropriate for a mother to say to her 10-year-old, it’s simply the wrong way to treat adults. Yet that would be the effect of new restrictions on dietary supplements proposed by Sen. Richard Durbin (D.-Ill.)…

(Read the full text of “Durbin’s Bill Is Dietary Paternalism“.)

We discuss the dangers of the proposed new restrictions on dietary supplements, which would require many supplement manufacturers to submit proofs of safety to the FDA before they could be marketed — including many that are already freely available in drugstores and supermarkets without a prescription. The new regulations would raise the prices of many supplements and force others off the shelves entirely.

On a personal level, I am taking some dietary supplements (in consultation with physician colleagues) to help with my hip fracture healing. So anything that would restrict my ability to purchase such supplements to promote my health greatly alarms me.

Many thanks to my co-author Michelle Minton and her colleagues at CEI for her excellent work and for facilitating the publication of this piece!

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