[Fwd:FDA Trying To Control All Nutritional Supplements By Labeling Them Drugs]

[Guest guest]

Dear group:

 

The following is some rather alarming material from

Mike Adams of www.NewsTarget.com. I do not believe

that Mike is overstating things at all. Anyone who

reads the Federal Docket that the FDA is trying to

push through, as I did, would be alarmed. This stuff

is as scary as it gets.

 

In essence, the FDA is trying to use their regulatory

control to gain the power to label almost everything

used in complementary and alternative medicine as

" drugs " . This would include labeling as " drugs "

nutritional supplements such as vitamins, minerals,

essential fatty acids, amino acids, probiotics,

prebiotics, digestive enzymes, etc. It would also

include labeling as " drugs " " functional foods " , herbs,

and even raw vegetable juices! (as well as much more).

This is totally nuts.

 

As you may well know, the drug approval process

commonly costs hundreds of millions of dollars for a

single drug. If nutritional supplements are labeled as

drugs, as the FDA is trying to do with the Federal

Docket they are proposing now, this will mean the end

of the free public access to nutritional supplements,

at one point or another. No nutritional supplement

manufacturer makes enough money on what they sell to

be able to afford the drug approval process for ANY

supplement that they make, much less all of them.

 

The FDA is totally controlled by the drug companies,

and it has been for quite some time. These drug

companies are doing everything in their power to shut

down alternative medicine altogether by the passage of

the Federal Docket that is currently before the FDA,

and by further action to follow.

 

The window for public comment on the blatantly

criminal agenda that the FDA is trying to push through

is April 30th. I cannot recommend enough that you

write your Senators and Congresspersons ASAP a

personal letter stating (1) that you strongly oppose

the FDA Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for

Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug

Administration, (2) that you don't want the FDA to

regulate ANY complimentary or alternative medical

substance or practice at all, and (3) that you

strongly oppose ANY nutritional supplement whatsoever

being classified by the FDA as a " drug " .

 

Mike Adams material has greater detail on how to voice

your opposition to the FDA's current agenda to bring

all of alternative medicine under their jurisdiction

and control.

 

If you have any interest in alternative medicine

surviving intact, please forward some of Mike Adams

material (such as the below or something similar from

his site www.NewsTarget.com) to everyone that you

know, as well as write a personal letter (not just an

email) to every person in Congress that represents

you.

 

Allen Darman

 

NewsTarget.com article

http://www.newstarget.com/021789.html

<http://www.newstarget.com/021789.html>

Originally published April 11 2007

 

Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to

regulate supplements, herbs and juices as " drugs "

by Mike Adams

 

When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end

game. A new FDA " guidance " document, published on the

FDA's website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually

all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable

juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and

massage rocks will be classified as " medical devices "

and require FDA approval. The document is called

Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and

Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.

 

The FDA is accepting public comments on the docket

until April 30th. They tried to sneak this under the

radar, but word got out and now the natural health

community is up in arms over this rule. If you wish to

protect your access to nutritional supplements, herbs,

essential oils, homeopathic medicine or any other

" complementary " or " alternative " modality, it is

crucial that you take action to post your comments

with the FDA right now and write your representatives

in Washington to put a stop to this outrageous effort

to destroy natural medicine. (And be sure to really

write them. Just sending an email has virtually no

impact compared to writing a physical letter in your

own words.)

 

Click here for the direct link to the FDA's comment

posting page for this docket.

 

This move by the FDA is designed to once and for all

destroy the 1994 DSHEA law that has made supplements

" legal " while eliminating nutritional supplements and

natural medicine from the United States, ensuring

monopoly profits and control by drug companies and the

FDA. It is the latest action item by the FDA / Big

Pharma conspiracy that will not stop until health

freedom has been abolished, drug companies rule the

nation, and every citizen is diagnosied with a

fictitious disease and drugged up on monopoly-priced

pharmaceuticals.

 

FDA " experts " will decide what's a drug or medical

device

 

Under these proposed guidelines, FDA " experts " (the

same corrupt officials who reapproved Vioxx after it

killed over 50,000 Americans) will decide whether

herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple devices like

massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and

medical devices. If the FDA experts, in their infinite

wisdom, decide that these things are to be

reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed,

stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of

existence. Anyone who dares to manufacture, promote or

sell such products may be branded a criminal and

rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well

established history of suppressing natural medicine.

 

I've documented much of the criminal history of the

FDA in my recent book, Natural Health Solutions and

the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them,

which suddenly seems even more relevant today than

when I wrote it. In that book, I documented the FDA

ordered book burnings, the raids on vitamin shops, the

kidnapping of natural health practitioners, the

threats, intimidation and oppression tactics that have

been used to suppress natural medicine for nearly a

hundred years now. And now, with this CAM Products

Regulation effort, the FDA is about to deal a final,

fatal blow to the alternative medicine industry,

outlawing nutritional supplements, functional foods,

homeopathy and natural therapies all at once.

 

This is not a drill. It really is time to be alarmed.

Nothing else I've written about this year is as

important as this sinister plot to destroy natural

medicine and force the American population to resort

to dangerous prescription medications sold at monopoly

prices under a system of medical tyranny.

 

Your access to vitamins, supplements, herbs, and even

energy medicine modalities is now directly threatened,

and you have until April 30 to make your voice heard.

 

Action items

First, read the document yourself. Click here for the

PDF version.

 

Take special care to notice the following text, taken

directly from the FDA's own document: (italicized text

is from the FDA, with my own translation following)

 

" ...a product used in a CAM therapy or practice may be

subject to regulation as a biological product,

cosmetic, drug, device, or food (including food

additives and dietary supplements) under the act or

the PHS Act. Second, neither the act nor the PHS Act

exempts CAM products from regulation. "

 

Translation: Anything used in any system of medicine

may now be regulated as a drug or medical device by

the FDA. This includes a biofeedback machine,

acupuncture needles, a cup of herbal tea, massage oil,

a glass of vegetable juice or even a bottle of water.

 

" ...if a person decides to produce and sell raw

vegetable juice for use in juice therapy to promote

optimal health... [and] if the juice therapy is

intended for use as part of a disease treatment

regimen instead of for the general wellness, the

vegetable juice would also be subject to regulation as

a drug under the Act. "

 

Translation: Raw vegetable juice will be regulated as

a drug and must be FDA approved as a drug if it has

any health effect whatsoever. Handing a cup of raw

vegetable juice to someone and telling them it's good

for the detoxification of their liver will get you

arrested for practicing medicine without a license and

promoting an " unapproved drug. "

 

.... " biologically based practices " includes, but is not

limited to, botanicals, animal-derived extracts,

vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids,

proteins, prebiotics and probiotics: whole diets, and

" functional foods " . ...a botanical product intended

for use in treating a disease would generally be

regulated as a drug. " ... " functional foods " may be

subject to FDA regulation as foods, dietary

supplements, or drugs under the Act.

 

Translation: All foods, supplements, superfoods and

functional foods may be reclassified as drugs by the

FDA, then regulated off the market.

 

*******************************

The above is only a portion of the entire article by

Mike Adams. Go to

http://www.newstarget.com/021789.html

<http://www.newstarget.com/021789.html> to see the rest.

Mike Adams website at www.NewsTarget.com has a free

newslatter that is definitely worth signing up for.

Allen

 

_