Comments on: Senate Hearing on Dietary Supplements Issue Puts More Pressure on FDA

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By: Perpetual Motion

Perpetual Motion — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:17:51 +0000

This article does not mention Senator Hatch’s connection with the supplement lobby. It also does not mention the fact that he did his best during that October 2009 hearing to make the FDA all but impotent. What this article does not say says more about the author and the source. When I watched this hearing I was unaware at the time of the senator’s connection, and noticed a real bias against the FDA testimony. It did not bother him that thousands of people had to sicken or die from these products before the FDA is allowed to aggressively test them and then the only recourse was to “ask” the company to stop distributing the offending product. Hatch has a real conflict of interest here. He should not be present at any hearings involving these products. His son Scott is a named partner and registered lobbyist at Walker, Martin & Hatch LLC. In 2003, the Los Angeles Times quoted Senator Hatch as saying that the firm was formed with his “personal encouragement” and that he saw no conflict of interest in championing issues that helped his son’s clients. You could tell where his sympathy was just by watching the hearing.