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Tom Harkin: “Mr. President, so what our amendment does today is help the FDA make enforcement of DSHEA a top priority. I want to…”

On the recordOctober 25, 2001
Mr. President, so what our amendment does today is help the FDA make enforcement of DSHEA a top priority. I want to emphasize as Senator Hatch did that the vast majority of dietary supplements are marketed safely and legally, by manufacturers who care deeply about the public and its health. However, for the few bad actors who are giving industry a bad name, who are taking advantage of a trusting public, I say ``it is time to get tough.'' In so doing, we admonish the agency not to wield the heavy hand it did for over three decades, the over-bearing attitude which led Congress to pass DSHEA so overwhelmingly in the first place.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the enforcement of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) and the FDA's role.

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