Health Autonomy
Supplement Access
ANH has defeated a wide range of efforts to limit and restrict consumer access to supplements, including:
1.Defeating Sen. Durbin’s Dietary Supplement Labeling Act in 2011 (by sending over 100,000 messages in 24 hours) and again in 2013.
2.Blocking Senator Durbin’s amendment which would have required FDA registration for all supplements.
3. Defeated Sen. McCain’s Dietary Supplement Safety Act, a bill that would have limited access to supplements. ANH sent more than 200,000 messages opposing the bill, leading Sen. McCain to withdraw support from his own bill.
4. Stopping Rep. Henry Waxman’s sneak amendment against supplements in a Wall Street reform bill that would have expanded the FTC’s power to target supplements.
5. Blocking efforts by Sen. Durbin to sneak a mandatory listing requirement into a must-pass appropriations bill in 2021.
6. Filed multiple Citizens Petitions and regulatory comments laying out the problems with the FDA’s “new supplement” guidance in 2011, including its regulatory and economic impact, eventually leading the FDA to retract it. When the guidance was reissued in 2016, ANH filed additional comments about the persistent problems with the guidance.
7. Supported the 2018 Farm Bill that legalized hemp at the federal level, an important step toward ensuring consumer access to affordable CBD supplements—though the fight is not yet over.