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PETITION
(2010 Changes in Red)

To Amend S.510 or Any Food or Dietary Supplement Safety Modernization Act or Similar Bill

By the Addition of the

Natural and Family Food and Farming Exclusion Amendment
And by Defeating Any Attempt to Add John McCain's Fake
"Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010" Provisions to S510

To:  The Members of the Senate of the United States of America:

Whereas the proposed Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services should focus its activities on the significant public administration issues involving
the capacity of large scale, industrialized agriculture to threaten
public safety,

Whereas dietary supplements, organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements are not a
significant part of the food safety problem, and

Whereas Congress previously provided for an exemption for natural food dietary supplements from the increased agency authority granted by the FDA Modernization Act of 2007, through
a rule of interpretation, added as section 1011 of that Act, and has on
numerous occasions exempted small and family farms from the same level
of regulation as has been deemed necessary in the case of
industrialized agriculture,

The citizens ascribing to this Petition therefore hereby request that any Food Safety Modernization Act identical or similar to HR 2749 be defeated, or that it, or any substitute for it be
amended to exclude organic and natural agriculture, family farms and
ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary
supplements, through a rule of interpretation, as follows:

“Rule of Interpretation

“No provision of this act shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family
farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including
dietary supplements regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act of 1994.”

We also note the language of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC sec 203 (s) (2) which provides, "(2) Any establishment that has as its only regular employees the owner thereof
or the parent, spouse, child, or other member of the immediate family
of such owner shall not be considered to be an enterprise engaged in
commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or a part of such
an enterprise..." Language such as this would be helpful to allay our
concerns.

If the FDA Center for Food Safety is to be moved into a new Food Safety
Agency, then Dietary Supplements, regulated as foods under the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) should be included in such
agency, with the proviso that such substances, as foods, are deemed
safe when used as directed.
 

We oppose any bill which undermines the provisions of DSHEA and call for extending those protective provisions as has been proposed by Rep. Dr. Ron Paul
of Texas. No provision of the fake "Dietary Supplement Safety Act of
2010" should be included in S510 or adopted individually; we call upon
all Senators to refuse to co-sponsor Sen. McCain's bill which threatens
our Health Freedom and our rights under DSHEA.

Furthermore, the ascribing citizens Petition the Congress of the United States to declare it the public policy of the United States that organic and natural agriculture, home and community
gardens, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food
products, including dietary supplements shall be at all times free from
suit, vexation, trouble, penalty, or loss of their goods, for the inestimable values they confer upon the public.

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