Most Prohormones May be Gone in SIX Months!

**Prince** · 02-23-2011, 12:25 PM

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 has been approved and awaits President Obama's signature.

New Bill Seeks to Ban Consumer Access to Dietary Supplements
By William Faloon

A bill has been introduced to the Senate that would drive up the cost of dietary supplements and restrict your access to them. This bill seeks to give the FDA arbitrary control over what supplements you are allowed to have.

This bill proposes to squander tax revenue, while burdening the private sector with oppressive laws that will hinder scientific advances and increase costs. The net effect will be to take away your free access to dietary supplements.

Pharmaceutical interests are obviously behind this latest effort to legislatively force more Americans towards expensive prescription drugs and away from natural ways of preventing degenerative disease.

Please use our convenient legislative action center to e-mail your Senators and Representatives to protest against this dangerous piece of legislation.

(Note: This communication is not an attack on any elected official. Many Senators would have been deceived by pharmaceutical lobbyists, as you will soon read.)

The bill represents the kind of federal regulation that is not only ineffective, but also suffocates innovation in ways that inflict permanent damage to this nation’s economic vitality.

The bill supposedly originates from the controversy surrounding the use of steroids by Major League Baseball players. Since some unethical companies illegally sold steroid drugs as “dietary supplements,” certain members of the Senate appear to have been deceived into believing that the FDA needs to be given additional power to ban dietary supplements across the board.

The fact is that the FDA has all the legal authority it needs to remove supplements that contain illegal drugs from the market. The FDA has failed to do its job, and there are companies selling dietary supplements that contain prescription drugs. If the FDA continues to fail to do its job, then these companies will continue to sell drug-tainted supplements no matter what new laws are created by Congress.

The outrage over this bill expressed by so many supplement consumers is that it gives the FDA broad and arbitrary new powers to remove natural products from the marketplace. Since the FDA (and Congress) is dominated by large pharmaceutical interests, this bill will effectively enable drug companies to control which supplements you have access to.

You may recall the FDA’s ban last year of a more effective form of vitamin B6 (pyridoxamine) because a pharmaceutical company wants to have it approved as an expensive new prescription drug to treat diabetic kidney failure.

If this bill is passed, it will make it far easier for pharmaceutical companies to file use patents on what are now inexpensive dietary supplements and convert them into outrageously priced “drugs.” Just look at the cost of prescription drug fish oil that so many cardiologists are prescribing to their patients. It costs about seven times more than the same amount of EPA/DHA fish oil you can buy as a dietary supplement. Just imagine if the FDA was given arbitrary power to ban omega-3 dietary supplements!

In order to mislead the public about the true nature of this bill, it has been named the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (DSSA). It purports to protect consumers, but the question arises, from what?

According to a published report by the American Association of Poison Control Centers, no one died in the year 2008 as a result of taking a dietary supplement.1 The facts are that legitimate reports of deaths caused by dietary supplements in this century are virtually non-existent.

Despite this safety track record, this bill would give the FDA authority to draw up a list of allowed and disallowed supplements (and supplement potencies). This alone would destroy your free access to supplements. But there is more.

There is no real world rationale for this legislation. Yet this bill would automatically cause any dietary supplement to be classified as “adulterated” if it is “manufactured, packaged, held, distributed, labeled or licensed by a dietary supplement company not registered with the Secretary.” The “Secretary” in this case is the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the department of the federal government that oversees the FDA.

The registration requirements would add layers of overhead costs to manufacturers who are already fully compliant with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and are inspected by the FDA. It would also create an entire new category of taxpayer-funded bureaucrats who would oversee this hideous expansion of federal control over dietary supplement access.

The registration process would require paperwork to be submitted to the federal government for every new formulation, re-formulation, new ingredient, etc. The effect will be to take what are now low-cost natural supplements and force the paperwork requirements to be more closely aligned with those of unaffordable prescription drugs.

These burdensome registration requirements also mandate voluminous paperwork submissions for new ingredients that give the FDA more power to DENY the “approval” of a natural ingredient. This clause of the bill would further reduce the availability of new dietary supplements coming to the market…effectively giving pharmaceutical companies a monopoly over what new health products you are allowed to use. Any new products that make it to market will carry the higher cost associated with complying with this bill’s new obstructive mandates.

The FDA already requires manufacturers to maintain records of serious adverse reaction reports. This bill would require that all “non-serious adverse events” be submitted to the federal government. The problem is that when a large group of people take any product, there are always coincidental adverse reactions. This means that for any given product, the FDA can arbitrarily take the list of adverse reports submitted to it and use it as a basis to remove the product, even if there was not a single valid adverse reaction! Once again, pharmaceutical companies would be able, under the Freedom of Information Act, to gain access to coincidental reports of adverse reactions and petition the FDA to REMOVE the supplement from the market. (There are of course millions of cases of serious adverse reactions—including many deaths—on file with the FDA about the drugs they approve, but of course these drugs are virtually never withdrawn from the marketplace by the FDA.)

The FDA already has broad powers to remove dangerous products. This legislation would enable the FDA to ban anything if they have only “reasonable probability” that there is a serious problem with a product. This kind of discretionary authority gives the FDA tyrannical power to ban supplements, a power they have not hesitated to use when they’ve had it.

Recall that in the early 1990s, the FDA declared that many of the supplements used today, including CoQ10, selenium, and chromium, were inherently dangerous. The public’s revolt against the FDA’s absurd proclamation led to passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. This is the law that protects consumers’ rights to access low-cost dietary supplements. The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would largely eviscerate the protections afforded by DSHEA.

Just imagine owning a pharmaceutical company and hearing from physicians that patients are refusing to take your expensive side effect-prone drugs. Instead you learn they are switching to low-cost dietary supplements that you cannot patent.

Since you control a large percentage of Congress, the logical solution is to have legislation enacted that will enable the FDA (that you also control) to remove supplements that compete with your drugs. That is exactly what the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (DSSA) will accomplish if Big Pharma has its way.

The greatest economic challenge this country faces is how to deal with runaway disease care costs (they call it “health care” when it isn’t). What few understand is that there is no real medical cost crisis. Medical care is so expensive today because it has been so corruptly over-regulated. Disease care costs, in other words, are egregiously hyper-inflated compared to what their free market price would be.

FDA Failure, Deception and Abuse is the title of a new book that documents that disease care costs are a result of endless legislation passed by Congress that enables those in conventional medicine to earn obscene profits, while the nation’s economy collapses under the burden of outlandish prices for dangerous and minimally effective therapies.

The proposed Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 is an egregious example of how this kind of insidious legislation comes into being, and how the public is deceived into thinking that Congress is seeking to “protect” them (in this case from nothing), when the real purpose of the legislation is to further enrich the entrenched drug cartel that long ago bought and paid for most of Congress and the FDA.

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 is a blatant example of how Congress undermines free markets and decimates private sector innovation.

The encouraging news is that the numbers of dedicated supplement users are enormous.

As in the 1980s and 1990s, the majority of the public is strongly on our side. Your voice needs to be heard to usurp the predatory financial influence pharmaceutical companies wield over Congress.

1. Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology. 2009. 47, 911-1084.

**Prince** · 02-23-2011, 12:26 PM

If you like any IronMagLabs products I suggest you start stock piling them, remember as long as you keep them sealed and stored in a dry, cool, dark spot they will remain potent for many years.

**theBIGness** · 02-23-2011, 12:34 PM

only in America....

**BlueLineFish** · 02-23-2011, 12:58 PM

When does this go into effect

**Prince** · 02-23-2011, 01:01 PM

if my understanding is correct 6 months after Obama signs it into law.

**cappo5150** · 02-23-2011, 01:04 PM

Will you give us a stock piling discount?

**TwisT** · 02-23-2011, 01:27 PM

Shit... not good Rob

-T

**SloppyJ** · 02-23-2011, 02:50 PM

Marketing ploy much?

**stylus187** · 02-23-2011, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by Prince

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 has been approved and awaits President Obama's signature.

New Bill Seeks to Ban Consumer Access to Dietary Supplements
By William Faloon

A bill has been introduced to the Senate that would drive up the cost of dietary supplements and restrict your access to them. This bill seeks to give the FDA arbitrary control over what supplements you are allowed to have.

This bill proposes to squander tax revenue, while burdening the private sector with oppressive laws that will hinder scientific advances and increase costs. The net effect will be to take away your free access to dietary supplements.

Pharmaceutical interests are obviously behind this latest effort to legislatively force more Americans towards expensive prescription drugs and away from natural ways of preventing degenerative disease.

Please use our convenient legislative action center to e-mail your Senators and Representatives to protest against this dangerous piece of legislation.

(Note: This communication is not an attack on any elected official. Many Senators would have been deceived by pharmaceutical lobbyists, as you will soon read.)

The bill represents the kind of federal regulation that is not only ineffective, but also suffocates innovation in ways that inflict permanent damage to this nation’s economic vitality.

The bill supposedly originates from the controversy surrounding the use of steroids by Major League Baseball players. Since some unethical companies illegally sold steroid drugs as “dietary supplements,” certain members of the Senate appear to have been deceived into believing that the FDA needs to be given additional power to ban dietary supplements across the board.

The fact is that the FDA has all the legal authority it needs to remove supplements that contain illegal drugs from the market. The FDA has failed to do its job, and there are companies selling dietary supplements that contain prescription drugs. If the FDA continues to fail to do its job, then these companies will continue to sell drug-tainted supplements no matter what new laws are created by Congress.

The outrage over this bill expressed by so many supplement consumers is that it gives the FDA broad and arbitrary new powers to remove natural products from the marketplace. Since the FDA (and Congress) is dominated by large pharmaceutical interests, this bill will effectively enable drug companies to control which supplements you have access to.

You may recall the FDA’s ban last year of a more effective form of vitamin B6 (pyridoxamine) because a pharmaceutical company wants to have it approved as an expensive new prescription drug to treat diabetic kidney failure.

If this bill is passed, it will make it far easier for pharmaceutical companies to file use patents on what are now inexpensive dietary supplements and convert them into outrageously priced “drugs.” Just look at the cost of prescription drug fish oil that so many cardiologists are prescribing to their patients. It costs about seven times more than the same amount of EPA/DHA fish oil you can buy as a dietary supplement. Just imagine if the FDA was given arbitrary power to ban omega-3 dietary supplements!

In order to mislead the public about the true nature of this bill, it has been named the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (DSSA). It purports to protect consumers, but the question arises, from what?

According to a published report by the American Association of Poison Control Centers, no one died in the year 2008 as a result of taking a dietary supplement.1 The facts are that legitimate reports of deaths caused by dietary supplements in this century are virtually non-existent.

Despite this safety track record, this bill would give the FDA authority to draw up a list of allowed and disallowed supplements (and supplement potencies). This alone would destroy your free access to supplements. But there is more.

There is no real world rationale for this legislation. Yet this bill would automatically cause any dietary supplement to be classified as “adulterated” if it is “manufactured, packaged, held, distributed, labeled or licensed by a dietary supplement company not registered with the Secretary.” The “Secretary” in this case is the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the department of the federal government that oversees the FDA.

The registration requirements would add layers of overhead costs to manufacturers who are already fully compliant with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and are inspected by the FDA. It would also create an entire new category of taxpayer-funded bureaucrats who would oversee this hideous expansion of federal control over dietary supplement access.

The registration process would require paperwork to be submitted to the federal government for every new formulation, re-formulation, new ingredient, etc. The effect will be to take what are now low-cost natural supplements and force the paperwork requirements to be more closely aligned with those of unaffordable prescription drugs.

These burdensome registration requirements also mandate voluminous paperwork submissions for new ingredients that give the FDA more power to DENY the “approval” of a natural ingredient. This clause of the bill would further reduce the availability of new dietary supplements coming to the market…effectively giving pharmaceutical companies a monopoly over what new health products you are allowed to use. Any new products that make it to market will carry the higher cost associated with complying with this bill’s new obstructive mandates.

The FDA already requires manufacturers to maintain records of serious adverse reaction reports. This bill would require that all “non-serious adverse events” be submitted to the federal government. The problem is that when a large group of people take any product, there are always coincidental adverse reactions. This means that for any given product, the FDA can arbitrarily take the list of adverse reports submitted to it and use it as a basis to remove the product, even if there was not a single valid adverse reaction! Once again, pharmaceutical companies would be able, under the Freedom of Information Act, to gain access to coincidental reports of adverse reactions and petition the FDA to REMOVE the supplement from the market. (There are of course millions of cases of serious adverse reactions—including many deaths—on file with the FDA about the drugs they approve, but of course these drugs are virtually never withdrawn from the marketplace by the FDA.)

The FDA already has broad powers to remove dangerous products. This legislation would enable the FDA to ban anything if they have only “reasonable probability” that there is a serious problem with a product. This kind of discretionary authority gives the FDA tyrannical power to ban supplements, a power they have not hesitated to use when they’ve had it.

Recall that in the early 1990s, the FDA declared that many of the supplements used today, including CoQ10, selenium, and chromium, were inherently dangerous. The public’s revolt against the FDA’s absurd proclamation led to passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. This is the law that protects consumers’ rights to access low-cost dietary supplements. The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would largely eviscerate the protections afforded by DSHEA.

Just imagine owning a pharmaceutical company and hearing from physicians that patients are refusing to take your expensive side effect-prone drugs. Instead you learn they are switching to low-cost dietary supplements that you cannot patent.

Since you control a large percentage of Congress, the logical solution is to have legislation enacted that will enable the FDA (that you also control) to remove supplements that compete with your drugs. That is exactly what the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (DSSA) will accomplish if Big Pharma has its way.

The greatest economic challenge this country faces is how to deal with runaway disease care costs (they call it “health care” when it isn’t). What few understand is that there is no real medical cost crisis. Medical care is so expensive today because it has been so corruptly over-regulated. Disease care costs, in other words, are egregiously hyper-inflated compared to what their free market price would be.

FDA Failure, Deception and Abuse is the title of a new book that documents that disease care costs are a result of endless legislation passed by Congress that enables those in conventional medicine to earn obscene profits, while the nation’s economy collapses under the burden of outlandish prices for dangerous and minimally effective therapies.

The proposed Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 is an egregious example of how this kind of insidious legislation comes into being, and how the public is deceived into thinking that Congress is seeking to “protect” them (in this case from nothing), when the real purpose of the legislation is to further enrich the entrenched drug cartel that long ago bought and paid for most of Congress and the FDA.

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 is a blatant example of how Congress undermines free markets and decimates private sector innovation.

The encouraging news is that the numbers of dedicated supplement users are enormous.

As in the 1980s and 1990s, the majority of the public is strongly on our side. Your voice needs to be heard to usurp the predatory financial influence pharmaceutical companies wield over Congress.

1. Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology. 2009. 47, 911-1084.

you can thank George Bush Jr. by the way the good prohormones have been gone for a few years. fucking political bullshit!!! I thought this was America, !!! fucking bullshit!! All this does is make people go underground for hardcore aas.... what I say Is true!!!

**braveand** · 02-23-2011, 04:38 PM

very bad news for ph addicted..

**Prince** · 02-23-2011, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by braveand

very bad news for ph addicted..

its also bad news for anyone that uses ANY supplements, vitamin B6 was banned last year, imagine the power the FDA will have now!

**Nightowl** · 02-23-2011, 05:20 PM

You know what (venting)...I am so tired of them jacking my stuff! I think it is even more of a cost to pay taxes that they've still not freakin' fixed, our other problems, 300 lb I can't work, I need drugs and so give me SSI now, only to find them hiding the goodies/ stuff to make something good happen. What next the aids meds?

does this include those hdrol, mdrol and that stuff? A complete mockery of justice toward the people. (still hold with my old saying, "take them out and shoot em")

**Prince** · 02-23-2011, 05:22 PM

people, this gives the FDA the power to ban ANYTHING they want including multiple vitamins!!! oh you don't think they will....just wait, they will do whatever big pharma wants them to do.

**carmineb** · 02-23-2011, 06:31 PM

i will have to start to stock pile at least 2 years of cycles I guess

**David Fasnacht** · 02-23-2011, 06:38 PM

the gov is not thinking they are just going to shove more people to the black market people will always get what they want prohabition did not work neither did the war on drugs big waste of time and money give the people what they want and tax it they will get it anyway WE THE PEOPLE WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPEND TO

THAT THE LAST 50 YEARS

**PreMier** · 02-23-2011, 07:00 PM

prince, how old is this and where did you get it?

Victorious over Senate Bill 3002 (DSSA) as introduced by John McCain | Facebook

**djm6464** · 02-23-2011, 07:14 PM

this has been coming for a while, im canadian so its always been this way....i agree its shitty, but you can only thank the retarded newbs running superdrol at 40mg for 6-8wks and no pct, then their mothers complaining

i was just reading about bulbine, the new t booster craze....3 rat studies showing t levels increased, vs studies of heptoxicity and kidney toxicity, but its still selling well, wtf

in a sense they are saving people from themselves, and for the majority that do things right, it sucks seeing the others have ruined shit for them...ex. the ephedrine ban after the overweight kids were collapsing in 100 degree heat after using the stuff....cmon

**TooOld** · 02-23-2011, 07:24 PM

Here's the Bill: http://www.npainfo.org/clientuploads...ety%20Bill.pdf

**rbuecker** · 02-23-2011, 07:30 PM

Well this just shits all over my day. Supps, guns, ban everything. Thank god for McDonalds and ice cream. Long live politics.

**oufinny** · 02-23-2011, 07:41 PM

Fucking useless douche bags in Washington... I am so annoyed I want to show them what a guy on cycle is like when he is crossed. Hey O'Bama, come closer, I promise I won't bite...

**HATEFULone** · 02-23-2011, 08:01 PM

Oufinny, fully agree.

I remember when the big bans were happening, I was getting bottles of stuff for $5 to $15 a peice, still have some old generic labz stuff, some mega trn as well, I might convert into a transdermal. This banning of our supplements is crazyness, I honestly am wondering why all of a sudden this is such a big issue, who are the main lobby parties financially supporting this? I wonder if the pharmaceutical companies are planning on getting more into the hgh and trt game, with more and more of these rejuvenation clinics popping up, maybe the docs and big pharma are gonna team up, ban all our stuff, then offer up some scripts for test and hgh for a hefty price.

With the ban coming most certainly I doubt it is a marketing scheme, smart marketing yes, get people to buy the ph's now while they are still around normal price, before all the fire sales start and we are getting all these clones for $5, greater profit margin if people buy now.

Interested in how companies will utilize things like dhea that are not yet banned, but have the ability to convert to other hormones. Future of ph's may be one or two step conversion products that can skim passed the ban. Not for long though everything good dies young.

**PreMier** · 02-23-2011, 08:12 PM

further research concludes that this is loooong over. its last action was feb 4th 2010

S. 3002 [111th]: Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (GovTrack.us)

prince, i get a lot of info from ironmag, but maybe you should check your sources sometimes

**BlueLineFish** · 02-23-2011, 09:28 PM

so this means no new ban

**mich29** · 02-23-2011, 11:10 PM

sad news but we all knew it wouldn't last forever.grap what you can fellas!!

**dancer** · 02-24-2011, 02:11 AM

If you ask me I believe that the government working in conjunction with the FDA are feeling quite good about themselves because they have the power to control us and what we do and say. And yet they say we live in a democratic society. Yea like F**KEN hell. Why don't they do what England are doing. They have approved that people can have a certain amount of either anabolic steroids or Pro-Hormones and that is working well. No complaints from the people there.

**SFW** · 02-24-2011, 03:13 AM

well, theres always ugl's and injectables

Seriously, i doubt the day is gonna come when Vitamin C is illegal. I just dont see it.

**Prince** · 02-24-2011, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by PreMier

further research concludes that this is loooong over. its last action was feb 4th 2010

S. 3002 [111th]: Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (GovTrack.us)

prince, i get a lot of info from ironmag, but maybe you should check your sources sometimes

ummm...yes it did, it was approved I believe on Dec. 27, 2010, it now awaits Obama's signature.

**2B1** · 02-24-2011, 01:36 PM

The pyridoxamine ban is scary. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and everything that follows with that logic.

Ben Franklin said; "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety". It seems today, giving up liberty for false security is where it's at. :facepalm:

**awhites1** · 02-24-2011, 02:11 PM

meh. im ok with this

**Prince** · 02-24-2011, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by awhites1

meh. im ok with this

I guess some people like the government taking away their rights to freedom and controlling what they can do.

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