EPHEDRA AND THE FDA

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EPHEDRA AND THE FDA

 

DECEMBER 31, 2003. The FDA ban this week of the herb ephedra is the forward

wedge in a new round of attacks on herbs and other nutritional supplements.

 

The gist of the attack is: all these supplements are actually drugs because they

create “biological activity.” Of course, what nutrient would not initiate

biological activity? Something inert? A piece of plastic? FOOD CAUSES BIOLOGICAL

ACTIVITY.

 

If the FDA can convince the public and the press and the beltway pols that

nutrients are harming people and are drugs, then it can try to insist that all

supplements undergo the multi-million-dollar testing that is required for new

drug approvals. This would bankrupt most nutritional companies and allow the

drug companies to accelerate their process of buying out these outfits.

 

Ephedra deaths have not been covered in detail. For example, what amounts were

the people taking? The Chinese have been using ephedra (ma huang) for 5000

years.

 

And then we have the fact, which I’ve documented over and over, that

FDA-approved pharmaceuticals correctly prescribed to patients in hospitals kill

100,000 people in the US every year. Where is the outcry about that?

 

Oh, that’s right. All outcries are supposed to come from…the FDA, the very

agency that approves the drugs that are killing so many people.

 

For some reason, the mainstream press does not get up on its hind legs about

THAT. Even though it would obviously make a sensational story that could be

pounded on day in and day out.

 

Can you imagine what would happen if ephedra were killing 100,000 people like

clockwork every year? People would burn down the buildings of the companies that

sell it. The CEOs would be hung in public squares.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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