This is confusing, because there was a letter on a different FDA regulatory situation that was overblown. This one is the real thing. It would reduce the already abysmal studies for pharmaceutical drugs and would put herbs under new broader FDA regulation. We thought Senator Kennedy's dangerous S.1082 was going to languish in committee a while, but it's been sent out of committee without hearings and may be heading for a Senate vote TODAY (though, it would still have to pass the House of Representatives, which may be another story...) Cynically it looks like they did it because people were so preoccupied with the other (less likely) issue.

See:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia...aign_KEY=11230

Also see: http://www.lef.org

Both LEF and NSF offer ways for you to tell your congresspeople to stop. So use both! And, if you can, call your Senators to alert them directly.