Guest guest Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 My responses are in the text as well, but I will put them in red, if that comes thru in your e-mail. I changed the title to better reflect what the discussion was about. David Molony The FDA has been taken on in court and they have lost badly, several times. The trouble isn't winning in court, it's getting them to adhere to the courts demands. After another illegal raid of a DR's office, they were slammed and lost a lot of power. That is about the time when we got the supplement act through. Legislation works wonders. Since then, they have lost several court cases over labeling laws. The organization that has been most effective that I know of is Life Extension Foundation. The life extension foundation had the advantage of being a company that made scads of money on products to pay for lawyers, and they did quite well, as did Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, and the DC's (sort of, at least in court). The extreme competitiveness of pricing that exists in Chinese medicine precludes big bucks, and the inability of organizations to do as much as they want to due to splinter groups and special interest infighting, combined with a lack of school's interest in providing political awareness to thier students has led us to where we are. I'm convinced that things are changing for the better relative to all of the above, except perhaps for the competitive pricing. The only way to affect the actions of the FDA is with Congressional legislation. That means communicating with the likes of Nancy Pelosi in the House and Ted Kennedy in the Senate. Nancy is the Minority speaker of the house and Ted Kennedy is the Minority chair of the Health care committee, I think. Thus they are not the only way or even the best way, especially since Ted Kennedy is a big FDA proponent, as the Democrats, with notable exceptions being Filner, Kukovich, and Harkin, generally are, for good reasons in thier thinking.They want to protect the public and they think that is the FDA's job and generally can't be convinced, for whatever reasons, that this is not true. These are my personal observations from seeing a number of sessions of Burtons Government oversight committee hearings. DAvid Molony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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