FDA Plants Saboteurs To Destroy Supplement Industry?(!)? (Consumer Labs)

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FDA Plants Saboteurs To Destroy Supplement Industry?(!)?

By John Hammell, International Advocates for Health Freedom

 

 

Contents

 

Page 1

DSHEA, FDA and Consumer lab.

Page 2

Counsel for Responsible Nutrition.

CODEX.

Folic acid.

 

QUESTION: What do John Hathcock, PhD of the Counsel for Responsible

Nutrition, Henry I. Miller, MD of Stanford University, Todd

Cooperman,MD, and William R. Obermayer, PhD. of Consumerlab all have

in COMMON?????

 

ANSWER: They all RECENTLY left FDA, and are EACH playing SIGNIFICANT

roles CLEARLY INTENDED to help pharmaceutical interests get complete

control of the dietary supplement industry, not only in the USA, but

world wide.

 

QUESTION: Are they PLANTS?

 

ANSWER: We'll never know for sure if any of them " left " FDA with the

INTENTION of serving in that capacity, but they might as WELL be

plants based on the fact that they came from the FDA and based on

their ACTIONS which deserve very close scrutiny as DSHEA [Dietary

Supplement Health and Education Act] and the supplement industry

world wide comes under attack, (especially in the EU and Canada) and

it appears that it will come under VERY heavy fire in the coming

Congress judging from these people actions as well as from a slew of

negative press articles attacking the supplement industry in the

past year. From what I can see, we're being methodically set up, in

part through the actions of these 4 people (and no doubt others that

we haven't discovered yet performing similar " roles " HERE IS HOW

WE'RE BEING SET UP: See (1)(2)(3) Below and conclusion...

 

Written-Oct 2000

Last Update-Oct 2000

 

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FIRST: Read the outrageous article " Death By Dietary Supplements "

published in " Policy Review " (an inside the beltway magazine

published by the Heritage Foundation which influences members of

Congress) by Henry I. Miller, MD formerly of FDA and now of Stanford

University,

 

(but his former affiliation with the FDA is conspicuously missing

from the article so no one reading it would realize this unless

someone told them.)

" DEATH BY DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS " By Henry I. Miller, MD (formerly

with FDA).

 

You will see that this outrageous article is intended to cast very

serious doubt on the safety and efficacy of dietary supplements,

strongly recommending various possible " solutions " to the

alleged " problem " .

 

This article is intended to be read by policy wonks all over DC and

to aid in a calculated campaign that's undoubtedly being VERY

CAREFULLY planned to introduce legislation intended to repeal DSHEA.

(God help us if John Dingle and Henry Waxman is put back in control

of the committee and subcommittee that all health legislation goes

through, because they have vowed to make repealing DSHEA

their " Number One Priority " if they regain power.

 

Dingle and Waxman were the supplement industries worst enemies back

when the Democrats last controlled the House. Note that in his

article, Dr. Miller mentions an entity which sprang out of nowhere,

with no way of knowing how it got its start up money,

called " CONSUMER LAB "

 

SECOND: Check out (so called) " Consumer Lab " (STARTED BY 2 Former

FDA Scientists!!) (Should Change Name to " FDA-ALLY-LAB " )

 

This brand new business has received MASSIVE media coverage due to

its negative statements about the quality control in the supplement

industry, while NNFA has received comparatively little coverage for

its TruLabel Quality Control initiative through which it is

encouraging member companies to focus more on quality control.

 

 

It sure comes as no surprise to me to learn that Todd Cooperman, MD

(Consumerlab President) and William R. Obermayer, PhD (VP) each

previously worked at FDA.

 

When I called them today I spoke with their PR spokeswoman, Lisa

Sabin. I expressed surprise that they call themselves " Consumerlab "

when they charge $900 for each of their technical reports about

dietary supplement products that they analyze and find lacking. I

told her I couldn't afford to spend that kind of money to see what

their conclusions were about specific products. Her response was

that I should only buy the products that they have favorably

reviewed on their website.

 

So I asked her if she thought the supplement industry should be

forced to full HACCP GMP regulations (pharmaceutical good

manufacturing practice regs) and she said " yes. " I informed her that

if this were to occur, many very good vitamin companies currently

engaging in superb quality control would be forced out of business

by gross regulatory overkill. Her response was that to state that so

many of the products they'd tested showed grossly substandard

quality control that she just could not agree.

 

My view after examining their site is that they have not tested a

wide enough range of products to be able to make such sweeping

statements,

 

and given that Cooperman and Obermayer came from the FDA, I find it

very difficult to trust " Consumerlab " which I think should be

named " FDA-ALLY-LAB " or " FDA-PLANT-LAB " instead.

 

 

" Consumerlab " has issued numerous negative press releases

 

all of which attack the supplement industry and are clearly intended

to foster attacks on DSHEA.

 

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