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- From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas Rand)
- Subject: Re: Anti-vitamin bill passes committee
- In-Reply-To: kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com's message of Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:34:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <DRAND.92Jul28142731@spinner.osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1470184@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:27:30
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- In article <1470184@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
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- You may remember a new bill that proposes making vitamins illegal,
- and giving the FDA broadly expanded powers.
-
- I love Kingsley's posts. He always states things in such a perfect
- way. The bill "making vitamines illegal"!!! I can just see the
- federal marshalls marching up and down the citrus groves confiscating
- all those illegal oranges.
-
- The bill, as I recall it, mandated the maximum content of certain
- vitamin supplements, which in large dosages act as drugs. One
- particular example I remember is niacin.
-
- I'm not sanguine about the federal government trampling our rights in
- cases such as comfiscature laws, but I'm having a hard time getting
- excited on this one. But I doubt it'll make it through the senate
- anyway.
-
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