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Alliance for Natural Health, Posted By ANH-USA On April 12, 2011
http://www.anh-usa.org/urgent-action-alert-the-leahy-bill-is-back/
We fear that the vague language and ten-year jail term in the bill will be misused by the FDA to threaten innocent natural health food and dietary supplement producers. Please take action to amend or stop it.
Last year’s bill to increase criminal penalties for “misbranding” or “adulterating” foods from a maximum of one year in jail to a maximum of ten has been reintroduced. The problem lies in how these terms are defined. And the bill’s on a fast track.
In the previous session of Congress, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced S.3767, the Food Safety Accountability Act. We opposed the bill [1], in part because it established fines and/or imprisonment for up to ten years if one were to: