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I, like most people, have many political opinions and am very tempted to launch into a political opinion journal, but I never intended my website to become a political platform, there are quite enough of those, until now. I find it very difficult to hold back when it comes to Vitamins. I am a huge believer in Vitamin Supplements for a healthy life and have taken large quantities of vitamins every day for many many years without ill effects and with HUGE benefits to both my family and myself.

Now Senator John McCain wants the FDA to get involved in regulating the Vitamin Industry and has introduced the Dietary Supplement Safety Act, S.3002. That infuriates me. When will the government stop regulating everything? They have regulated us into oblivion and then some and they always use our safety as an excuse to remove more and more of our freedoms.

We have done just fine as far as vitamin safety is concerned for at least the 38 years that I have been taking vitamin supplements but now Senator John McCain and his cosponsor(s) want the FDA to regulate the potency of vitamin supplements to be more in line with the European Food Safety Authority and institute more controls. What ridiculous nonsense is this? Since when has the European Food Safety Authority become our Big Daddy and why are we being tucked under the FDA's wing as though we are little children needing guidance in choosing what vitamins and what potency we need for ourselves.

I have to ask: Senator McCain are you so afraid of your safety in whatever essential minerals and vitamins you may be taking that you need to ask the FDA to tell you what they think is best for you? Do you think the supplements that are designed to improve and keep you healthy and prevent you from becoming ill need to be regulated for the safety of your health? Did you know that Vitamins HELP you to avoid taking those dangerous medications that the FDA does approve of? Why on earth would you purposely want to regulate vitamin supplements and essential minerals and herbs?

Why, Senator McCain would you want to make robots out of us? Why do you want the government to have complete control over our lives in the preposterously innocent guise of safety? How nonsensical is that?

Update on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 7:06PM by

[Pamela McMonagle]

It would appear that the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, S.3002 no longer has Senator McCain's support but that Senator Hatch is getting behind another revised bill which is a watered down version of the original bill. Its purpose is to seek transparency from the dietary supplement industry.

I just can't believe they keep trying to fix things that aren't broken under the guise of protecting us!