{"id":3263,"date":"2010-03-06T07:09:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T05:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2015-12-02T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:43:45","slug":"mccain-withdraws-support-dietary-supplement-safety-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/mccain-withdraws-support-dietary-supplement-safety-act\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Withdraws Support for Dietary Supplement Safety Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in throes of wrapping up a major project, so &#8211; while I was aware of the Dietary Supplement Safety Act (natch!) &#8211; I missed blogging about it (I wanted to read the text first, but couldn&#8217;t spare the time).<\/p>\n<p>But it looks like Senator McCain just made this a moot point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Senate staffer confirmed that Sen. John McCain no longer supports a bill he introduced to significantly tighten regulatory requirements for dietary supplements.<\/p>\n<p>McCain offered the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, S. 3002,\u00a0in February. The Arizona Republican will now collaborate with\u00a0Sen.\u00a0Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on revised legislation that allegedly provides for transparency and safety within the supplement industry but without the intensive\u00a0regulatory intervention proposed in S. 3002. No timeline is set for introduction of a new bill.<\/p>\n<p>Hatch thanks McCain for withdrawing his support of the original legislation in a March 4 <span><a href=\"http:\/\/fdcalerts.typepad.com\/files\/100308_hatch_mccain_s3002_letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m counting on you to work with me to make sure this important industry does not fall prey to over-regulatory regimes and mounds of costly government bureaucracy,&#8221; Hatch writes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Works for me. Personally, I don&#8217;t see anything majorly wrong with the existing regulatory framework.\u00a0 As I see it, the primary problem is lax\/uneven enforcement &#8211; a problem that would not be solved by giving the FDA even more power over the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in throes of wrapping up a major project, so &#8211; while I was aware of the Dietary Supplement Safety Act (natch!) &#8211; I missed blogging about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10150,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/10150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}