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Sunday, April 27, 2003 12:22 AM

War on Supplements

 

 

http://www.life-enhancement.com/article_template.asp?ID=833

 

 

Cometh the CGMP Storm Troopers

CGMP Makes War on Nutritional Supplements

 

" Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding

Dietary

Ingredients and Dietary Supplements " (CGMP) is a proposed FDA rule which would

impose strict standards of manufacturing on the nutritional supplement industry.

 

" The standards put forth in this document are so severe that they exceed those

imposed upon the pharmaceutical companies, which are Goliaths with virtually

unlimited resources in comparison to nutritional companies...the added burden

would at least triple the price.

 

" There can be little doubt that the proposed rule would level most small

businesses

(which comprise most of the industry). Far fewer companies would survive, and

these would tend to be the largest and most conservative, resulting in

significantly

less competition and far less innovation. CGMP would ensure not only a rollback

of complex products, but also hinder or halt the development of new products.

 

" The FDA would have the right to conduct unrestricted inspections of nutritional

companies at their discretion and could, for subjective reasons, shut down

companies that are in their political beacon...the FDA's solution to 'good

manufacturing' is nothing less than the imposition of arbitrary and undefined

powers enabling it to exercise repression of all with whom it disagrees.

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