Action Alert: Irradiating Food AND Supplements

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This was my letter to the FDA:I am an doctor and an Applied Clinical Nutritionist. I am 56 years old, and have been studying these issues for 31 years.II am a member of Citizens for Health (CFH), and I join CFH and the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) in opposition to a petition referenced in the preamble to FDA’s final rule on current good manufacturing practice for dietary supplements on June 25, 2007. I support CFH and AHPA’s opposition to this petition on the following grounds:--Proper handling of dietary supplements under current good manufacturing practice is usually sufficient to ensure that they are not subject to microbial contamination that presents any risk to the health of consumers of these products --If approved, the use of ionizing irradiation on herbal dietary ingredients will mask one of the factors that is currently relevant to the determination of ingredient quality, since information about microbial levels and the

presence of pathogens or yeasts and molds at any time during the handling of a treated ingredient would be lost. Of particular concern are pathogens, since even if pathogenic organisms are eliminated through irradiation, pathogenic by-products such as endotoxins or exotoxins may remain in the material --Irradiation is currently allowed in the United States for eleven food categories, and in proposing that the limitation of ionizing radiation for dietary supplements be established at 30 kGy, the petition is suggesting that this limit be from 3 to 30 times higher that is currently allowed for all but two food categories. Dietary supplements may be consumed in quantities of several grams per day. Thus, dietary supplement consumers will be exposed to much higher levels of any material changes that occur in a supplement’s or ingredient’s characteristics or in its consequences of use, if any, as a result of the irradiation. Please honor the Dietary Supplement Health

and Education Act (DSHEA), which protects supplements as safe unless proven otherwise, and deny the petition to irradiate supplements.This is of tantamount importance. I would favor armed revolution rather than have someone irradiate or otherwise denature my food. LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! Any food w/o microorganisms is not worth eating. Any food that will not rot (food w/ enzymes destroyed) is not worth eating. Indeed, all such treated foods are slow poisons.Thank you, and I look forward to your reply.I am also sending it to many congressmen, today.Michael L. Goebel, D.C, ACN, and Christian patriotahzoov wrote: &n

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p; FDA Petition Filed Requesting Irradiation of Dietary Supplements:Join CFH and AHPA in Saying "NO" to Irradiation! Dear Supporter, On December 17, 2007, Citizens for Health (CFH) joined with the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) in opposing a petition filed with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the use of ionizing radiation for the control of microbial contamination on dietary supplements and dietary ingredients. AHPA became aware of the petition when it was referenced in the preamble to FDA's final rule on current good manufacturing practice for dietary supplement on June 25, 2007. Click Above to Read More and Send Your Letter Opposing Irradiation of Supplements! In requesting that the petition be denied, AHPA identified several concerns, including that because "proper handling of these ingredients under current good

manufacturing practice is usually sufficient to ensure that dietary supplements are not subject to microbial contamination that presents any risk to the health of consumers of these products . . . there is generally no need for ionizing radiation as a treatment for this class of goods." We have joined with AHPA because we know what you do - that dietary supplements have a strong track record of safety established over years, decades, and in some cases, centuries of use by people all aorund the world.

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) established that the law here in the United States affirms that supplements are considered safe unless proven otherwise. Yet the filers of the petition believe our supplements need to be bombarded by radiation at levels 3 to 30 times higher that is currently allowed for all but two food categories. Click Above to Read More and Remind FDA that Supplements are Already Safe! Remember that now, as it has been at every point in our nation's history, if it were not for the dedication of the few, the vast majority of us would not enjoy the rights and freedoms we do. Your voice is needed now to preserve our access to food and supplements free from irradiation. Thanks for taking action, The Citizens for Health Team See AOL's top rated recipes and easy ways to stay in shape for winter.

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That is really scary - ate least it scares the hell out of me, and it

angers the hell out of me too. It seems obvious to me that by

whatever means it takes, Big Pharma and those who control mainstream

medicine, and their agencies, are determined to continue to increase

their market by increasing illness in their only marketplace - our

bodies - and to eliminate all competition that stands in the way,

whether it is our food, our supplements, or any safe and effective

alternative treatments.

 

To quote in part from a reply in the CurZone forum after I posted

your alert:

 

" Under the guise of " protecting us " from " microbial contamination " we

will be slowly wiped out...

 

Life, We each require a a symbiotic relationship with billions,

perhaps trillions of good and neutral microbes (bacteria and yeast),

both inside and out to not only keep the bad ones at bay... but to

also help us break down absorb and manufacture nutritional substances

through the digestive tract and skin...

 

Unfortunately many articles like the following...

 

 

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/431698_3

 

 

only scratch the surface with " known " symbiotic bacterial

relationships...

 

I ask people to remember that " live " soil with healthy bacteria and

life is REQUIRED for the best foods as the root systems of plants

depend on the symbiotic relationships with bacteria in order to

absorb nutrition from the soil... the exchange benefits the plants as

well as the microbial life of the soil.

 

This is basic biology\botony\organismal teaching...

 

In turn, our lives depend on our digestive tract being ALIVE with

symbiotic microbial life in order to reap the benefits from the foods

ingested...

 

Our digestive tracts are analogous to a plants root system... in

terms of the symbiotic relationships they have with microbial life

that enable life to thrive.

 

IMO

 

ANY sterilization of " life " forms, microbial or not can only be life

inhibiting... causing sickness and eventual death for the organisms

dependent upon a symbiotic relationship with it.

 

Check out any land that has been sterilized of soil life with

herbicides...

 

I REFUSE to use sterilizing washes for my produce, or use any

antibiotic, or sterilizing cleaners\ANYTHING, for these very

reasons... "

 

Man would do well to spend some time each week in a good old dirty

garden free of pesticides and herbicides, working the soil, being

closer to nature, and interacting with all the wonderful soil

bacteria the way we were designed to do by being out in nature and

not enclosed in protective shells.

 

 

" Nature is the physician of man. "

- Hippocrates, " the father of medicine " , The Nature of Man

 

" The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his

patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and

prevention of disease. "

- Thomas Edison

 

" Modern medicine " may well be defined as " the experimental study of

what happens when poisonous chemicals are placed into malnourished

human bodies. "

- A. Saul, Contributing Editor, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

 

" Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the

dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow. "

- Dr. ALEXIS CARROL. (Famous Biological Scientist and head of the

Rockefeller Institute.)

 

" Nature alone can cure disease. Doctors cannot heal. They can only

direct the sufferer back to the pathways of health. Nature alone can

create, and healing is re-creation. " Dr. William S. Sadler

 

 

 

 

oleander soup , Michael Goebel <goebelchx

wrote:

>

> This was my letter to the FDA:

>

> I am an doctor and an Applied Clinical Nutritionist. I am 56 years

old, and have been studying these issues for 31 years.I

>

> I am a member of Citizens for Health (CFH), and I join CFH and the

American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) in opposition to a

petition referenced in the preamble to FDA's final rule on current

good manufacturing practice for dietary supplements on June 25, 2007.

I support CFH and AHPA's opposition to this petition on the following

grounds:

>

> --Proper handling of dietary supplements under current good

manufacturing practice is usually sufficient to ensure that they are

not subject to microbial contamination that presents any risk to the

health of consumers of these products

> --If approved, the use of ionizing irradiation on herbal dietary

ingredients will mask one of the factors that is currently relevant

to the determination of ingredient quality, since information about

microbial levels and the presence of pathogens or yeasts and molds at

any time during the handling of a treated ingredient would be lost.

Of particular concern are pathogens, since even if pathogenic

organisms are eliminated through irradiation, pathogenic by-products

such as endotoxins or exotoxins may remain in the material

> --Irradiation is currently allowed in the United States for eleven

food categories, and in proposing that the limitation of ionizing

radiation for dietary supplements be established at 30 kGy, the

petition is suggesting that this limit be from 3 to 30 times higher

that is currently allowed for all but two food categories. Dietary

supplements may be consumed in quantities of several grams per day.

Thus, dietary supplement consumers will be exposed to much higher

levels of any material changes that occur in a supplement's or

ingredient's characteristics or in its consequences of use, if any,

as a result of the irradiation.

>

> Please honor the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act

(DSHEA), which protects supplements as safe unless proven otherwise,

and deny the petition to irradiate supplements.

>

> This is of tantamount importance. I would favor armed revolution

rather than have someone irradiate or otherwise denature my food.

LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! Any food w/o

microorganisms is not worth eating. Any food that will not rot (food

w/ enzymes destroyed) is not worth eating. Indeed, all such treated

foods are slow poisons.

>

> Thank you, and I look forward to your reply.

>

>

> I am also sending it to many congressmen, today.

>

> Michael L. Goebel, D.C, ACN, and Christian patriot

>

> ahzoov

wrote:

 

 

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> FDA Petition Filed Requesting Irradiation of Dietary Supplements:

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> Join CFH and AHPA in Saying " NO " to Irradiation!

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Dear Supporter,

>

>

>

> On December 17, 2007, Citizens for Health (CFH) joined with the

American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) in opposing a petition

filed with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the use

of ionizing radiation for the control of microbial contamination on

dietary supplements and dietary ingredients.

>

>

>

> AHPA became aware of the petition when it was referenced in the

preamble to FDA's final rule on current good manufacturing practice

for dietary supplement on June 25, 2007.

>

Click Above to Read More and Send Your Letter Opposing

Irradiation of Supplements!

>

>

>

> In requesting that the petition be denied, AHPA identified

several concerns, including that because " proper handling of these

ingredients under current good manufacturing practice is usually

sufficient to ensure that dietary supplements are not subject to

microbial contamination that presents any risk to the health of

consumers of these products . . . there is generally no need for

ionizing radiation as a treatment for this class of goods. "

>

>

>

> We have joined with AHPA because we know what you do - that

dietary supplements have a strong track record of safety established

over years, decades, and in some cases, centuries of use by people

all aorund the world. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education

Act (DSHEA) established that the law here in the United States

affirms that supplements are considered safe unless proven

otherwise. Yet the filers of the petition believe our supplements

need to be bombarded by radiation at levels 3 to 30 times higher

that is currently allowed for all but two food categories.

>

Click Above to Read More and Remind FDA that Supplements are

Already Safe!

>

> Remember that now, as it has been at every point in our nation's

history, if it were not for the dedication of the few, the vast

majority of us would not enjoy the rights and freedoms we do. Your

voice is needed now to preserve our access to food and supplements

free from irradiation.

>

> Thanks for taking action,

>

>

>

> The Citizens for Health Team

 

> See AOL's top rated recipes and easy ways to stay in shape for

winter.

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Try it now.

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