House+Bill+1014

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Summery of the bill:

The reason for bill 1014 is to amend the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act and the Public Health Service Act to require an application for approval or for investigation of a drug, device, or biological product to include information stratified by sex, race, and ethnicity, including any differences in safety and effectiveness. This means that from now on a product of any drug, device. or biological product must include information by sex, race, and ethnicity. The product also must include any differences in saftey and effectiveness. This also has to do with restaraunts, grocery stores, and other places that sell food items. The nutritional information should be put on the food label, and at restaraunts food information must be given if asked for. If a certain store or seller refuses they will be fined and be forced to put the information in. Also, the bill will set up educational campaigns to help women stuggling with obesity and at a risk for cardiovascular diseases. These campaigns will provide women with information on how to eat and how to strenghten their heart. Overall the main goal of this bill is to prevent cardiovascular diseases in women.

Reason/history of bill:

The reason for the bill is to decrease the alarming rate of women with cardiovascular diseases in this country. Cardiovascular diseases are the number one leading cause of why women today are in the hospital. It is also the number one killer of women in America. Also this bill plans to not only prevent diseases, but will also to make women more healthy in this nation. The educational campaigns that the bill will set up will help enlighten women to live a healthier life. So, this bill as you can see is a very important bill to society.

People affected by the bill:

The bill is mainly pointed towards women, and trying to improve thier lifestyles, but many people do not know that this bill will effect any place or store that sell products. Although the bill will effect them it is a change made for the greater good of people living in the states. These people selling products must follow the guidelines of what nutritional information to put on thier product based on this bill. All they must do is put on any product of any drug, device. or biological product must include information by sex, race, and ethnicity. The product also must include any differences in saftey and effectiveness. So that is all that this bill is effecting, and like I said all the changes made in society made because of this bill are directed toward the greater good of the people.

Sponser: The sponser of the bill is Lois Capps. She is a democrat from California and is in the House of Representitives. She created the bill to prevent diseases in women, and to help them become more healthy. So in honor of trying to prevent cardiovascular diseases in women she named bill 1014 The HEART for women act. Today her bill is sponsered by 231 people in the house and counting.

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__American Heart Association__. 8 Dec. 2008 .

__www.capwiz.com__. 7 Dec. 2008 .

__macedonia.usembassy.gov__. 7 Jan. 2009 .

__http://www.flickr.com__. 7 Jan. 2009 .