From: cprice@treehut.waffle.atl.ga.us (Clyde Price)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: H.R. 2597
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:14:51 GMT
Organization: Clyde's TreeHut BBS


        I rekeyed this post from material I found in my mailbox on
15 Sep 1991.  I've only recently gotten a better Usenet newsgroup feed,
and it just occurred to me that this would be another area where people
would be interested in fighting excessive government powers.

        "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."  Let's FIGHT this
attempt to turn our country into a police-state.

[retyped from a letter]
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THE LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION, A Non-Profit Tax Exempt Foundation
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Dear Friend:
        Your freedom to buy _all_ amino acids and nutrients such as
COENZYME Q-10 may be taken away by a bill introduced into Congress
that gives the FDA frightening new powers.
        If enacted, this bill would provide the power to enable the
FDA to:
* Regulate amino acids and other nutrients as DRUGS. Since these
         "drugs" have not gone through the multi-million dollar
         new-drug approval process, the FDA would call them
         "unapproved new drugs" and
         keep you from obtaining them.
* Shut down health-food stores, health practitioners, and any nutrient
         company  WITHOUT A COURT ORDER!
* Seize and destroy all nutrients and drugs you attempt to obtain from
         outside the country.
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         This bill would also drive up the cost of all dietary
supplements, as the FDA begins to seize these "unapproved new drugs".
         The FDA tried to make vitamins prescription drugs in the
1970's.  The FDA was overwhelmingly defeated by a massive letter
writing campaign to members of Congress.  We have to mount an even
bigger campaign this time.
         Please sign the enclosed postcards and mail them to these
important congressional leaders.
         Also please write a letter to these key members of Congress
         Now we need your financial help.  We are funding a full-time
political and legal campaign against the FDA and the cost is
staggering.
         You can help us by joining THE LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION.  As
a mamber of The Foundation, you will receive information every month
that could literally save your life.  Members of THE LIFE EXTENSION
FOUNDATION gain access to new medical breakthroughs years before the
general public.
         The enclosed brochure explains our membership program that
provides you with life-saving information, while telling you how to
save hundreds of dollars a year on your vitamin and prescription drug
purchases.
         The Foundation is the only organization that has dared to
take on the FDA, both in Court and in Congress.  Your support is
critical if we are to make life extension breakthrough available to
the American people before we are all TOO OLD to benefit from them.
                         Sincerely,
                         The Life Extension Foundation
                         Saul Kent
2490 Griffin Road                In Hollywood Area: (305)966-4886
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312   Toll-Free Number: 1-800-841-LIFE

[retyped from a letter]

         THE LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION'S
         SYNOPSIS/ANALYSIS OF H.R. 2597
"Food, Drug, Cosmetic, and Device Enforcement Amendments of 1991"
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         H.R. 2597 was introduced on June 7, 1991 by Rep. Henry A.
Waxman (D-24-CA), Chair of Health and The Environment Subcommittee of
the House, and by Rep. John D. Dingell (D-16-MI), Chair of the House
Energy and Commerce Committee.
         This bill would empower the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) with enforcement actions that would deny individuals and
companies any rights before the courts, and would empower FDA to
harass, bankrupt, and file criminal charges against almost any U.S.
citizen for almost any reason!
         FDA could impose penalties of up to One Million Dollars for
each act that an individual does, fails to do, or should have known to
do that violates any provision of the Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act.
         FDA would have the power to institute 24-hour electronic
surveillance of any healthcare business and demand that certain
records be maintained.
         FDA would have the power to issue subpoenas to force
testimony and the production of records from any person in the
healthcare industry at any time, for any reason at all.
         FDA would have the power to destroy any product imported from
any other country that it deems is "dangerous".
         FDA could stop citizens from bringing into this country any
medications, products, or therapies they receive as part of healthcare
in Mexico, Europe, or any other part of the world.
         In effect, H.R. 2597 is the MOST repressive piece of
legislation EVER proposed in the history of the U.S. Congress, in our
opinion.  The infamous Claude Pepper Bills of 1984 (H.R.6049, 6060,
6051) that everyone fought so valiently to defeat, pale in comparison
to this outrageous attack on freedom of choice in healthcare.
         H.R. 2597 is so outrageous that the following associations in
mainstream business have sent a letter of protest to Representative
Waxman about the bill's sweeping and unjustified scope:  American
Bankers Association, Animal Health Institute, Association for
Dressings and Sauces, Association of Food Industries, Calorie Control
Council, Concord Grape Association, Cosmetic, Toiletry & Fragrance
Association, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Health Industry
Manufacturers Association, Preserve Association, National Assn. Of
Margarine Manufacturers, National Electrical Manufacturers
Association, National Food Processors Association, National Pasta
Association, National Pecan Shellers Association, American Frozen Food
Institute, National Single Service Food Association, Nonprescription
Drug Manufacturers Assn., Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association,
and The Vinegar Institute.
         H.R. 2547 presents an opportunity, probably for the first
time in history, for everyone in business and industry who appreciates
and understands the issue of free choice and competition to join
forces and align themselves against oppression.  As a Consumer of
healthcare products and therapies, you must join with us in opposing
H.R. 2597.  Please contact your Congressional representatives
immediately.
THE LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION, A Non-Profit Tax Exempt Foundation
2490 Griffin Road        In Hollywood Area:(305) 966-4886
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Toll-Free Number:1-800-841-LIFE

Representative Henry A. Waxman, Chairman,
Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
2418 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C.  20515
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The FDA Should NOT be given more enforcement power.
         Vote NO on Bill H.R.2597
A new bill introduced by Representatives Henry Waxman and John Dingell
(H.R.2597) would enable the FDA to harass, bankrupt, and pursue
criminal charges against every health-food store, nutrient product
distributor, physician, chiropractor, and nutritionist in the United
States.
         H.R.2597 would give the FDA the power to impose penalties of
UP TO $1,000,000.00 FOR EACH ACT that an individual does, fails to do,
or should have known to do that violates ANY provision of the Food,
Drug And Cosmetic Act.  The bill would give the FDA the power to
institute 24-hour electronic surveillance of any healthcare business
and to issue subpoenas to force testimony and production of records
from any person in the healthcare industry at any time, for any reason
at all!
         H.R.2597 also would give the FDA the power to DESTROY ANY
PRODUCT imported from another country.  The FDA could use this power
to stop patients with Cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, AIDS, and other
life-threatening diseases from obtaining, or bringing into the
country, products and therapies not approved by the FDA.
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         I request that you vote _NO_ on H.R.2597 and that you use
your influence to persuade others in Congress to vote no on this
oppressive bill.  Please let me know what action you will take to
prevent the FDA from becoming the KGB in the USA.
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                 Signed_______________________________________________
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            Name(print)_______________________________________________
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                Address_______________________________________________
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                       _______________________________________________
[retyped from a postcard]

[The only acceptable printed format for the following petition is
available from THE LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION 800-841-LIFE. Call them
and get copies from them.  Don't print your own.  They want to hand
deliver them to Washington themselves.]
                 CITIZENS PETITION
         We the undersigned are citizens of the United States of
America.  We hereby petition the President of the United States, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, and members of Congress and
urge them to oppose H.R.2597, the bill that proposes to give the
U.S.Food And Drug Administration (FDA) more enforcement power.
         The FDA has been routinely abusing its current powers and
illegally embargoing and seizing safe and healthful nutrients.  If
H.R.2597 is passed, the FDA will be able to harass, bankrupt, and file
criminal charges against anyone in the healthcare industry -- WITHOUT
JUDICIAL AUTHORITY!  H.R.2597 will make the FDA JUDGE, JURY and
EXECUTIONER, in direct violation of the 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 14th
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.  We urge you to oppose H.R.2597!
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[Though the Foundation wants you to use copies provided by them, or
high-quality duplicated from theirs, you could use this as a model for
a letter to your Congressional delegation.  This would be a good time
for some of those information service CONGRESSGRAMS!  --Clyde Price]


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