Feds eye control of vitamins, supplements – even water!

April 25, 2007

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55370

Posted: April 24, 2007

9:30 p.m. Eastern

By Bob Unruh

FDA Commissioner Andrew von Echenbach

The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs

and other natural substances, including water when it is used

to " treat " dehydration, should be classified as drugs, and opponents

have only until April 30 to express their concern about the

proposals under Docket No. 2006D-0480.

The government agency under the direction of Andrew C. von

Eschenbach, who became commissioner in 2006, also has put

its " Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their

Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration " on a fast track for

implementation.

But parents' groups, natural remedy interests, food and herb

businesses and others are horrified. A group called Gentle Christian

Mothers alerted its constituency in no uncertain terms.

" Please Read!!! The FDA is trying to regulate all things that are

considered by them to be treatment for disease. They want to

regulate vitamins, herbs, alternative therapies (things like hot

stone therapy), even down to juices and holy water, " the warning

said. " It might mean having to go to a doctor or medical

professional for vitamins. "

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The website noted that among likely developments if the FDA has its

way:

Growing and selling common garden herbs will get you arrested as a

drug dealer.

Massage oils and handheld massagers will be regulated as " medical

devices. "

Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug.

Weight machines will be regulated as " medical devices " and require

FDA approval before being sold or used.

Raw sprouts and other anti-cancer foods will be regulated as drugs.

Bottled water that " treats " dehydration will be regulated as a drug.

Massage therapists who use hot rocks as part of their therapy will

have the ROCKS regulated as medical devices! (It's true. The FDA

will actually look at a pile of rocks and declare, " Those are

medical devices! " )

Foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will disappear

from store shelves, pending FDA " review. "

Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for " practicing

medicine without a license. "

" This could be potentially devastating, not just to my business but

to any business relating to supplements, " Sophy Winnick, a Felton,

Calif., mother of four who has been selling Youngevity products for

10 years, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. " People better get on the

horn about this. "

The FDA's " draft guidance " on the issue first appeared in December,

but federal officials said it was printed in the Federal Register on

Feb. 27, prompting the growing storm of protest.

The FDA has reported that approximately one-third of all adult

Americans have reported participating in or using some form

of " complementary and alternative medicine " and officials estimate

nutritional supplement sales total about $5 billion a year in

America.

On the NewsTarget website, self-described " Health Ranger " Mike Adams

posted one of the alerts.

" What this means to consumers, according to the proposal as outlined

in FDA Docket number 2006D-0480, is that things like vitamins and

herbs would be controlled by the FDA, and could possibly require

prescriptions from a naturopath, herbologist or some other

physician, all of which would require you to pay a health insurance

company and contribute to the already back-breaking cost of

healthcare in America, " he wrote.

" There are those who do not trust the U.S. government to act in the

interest of its citizens over the interests of pharmaceutical

companies and health insurance providers, " he said. " Those people

have good reason to feel this way, and the amount of dangerous –

DEADLY, even – pharmaceutical drugs that get recalled … is testament

to the fact that human beings can be used as guinea pigs because the

FDA allows the pharmaceutical industry to release drugs that haven't

been properly tested. "

As WND recently reported, Merck and Co. had been donating to state

legislators across the nation who in return were working to require

young girls to be given Merck's $400 vaccine that prevents a virus

that is spread only through sexual contact.

WND also has reported on the mandatory anthrax shots for members of

the military, even though they had not been fully tested, and the

possibility that government officials also could order civilians to

be vaccinated.

" This [new] proposal would allow the FDA to control your access

to 'alternatives' to the broken, profit-driven, corrupt

pharmaceutical industry here in the U.S., " Adams wrote.

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

said. " 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.

" 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, " he said.

" Under these proposed guidelines, FDA 'experts' (the same corrupt

officials who re-approved 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, " Adams continued. " 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. "

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

said. " 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. "

For example, he cited wording directly from the FDA plans: " …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 regiment…, the

vegetable juice would also be subject to regulation as a drug. "

Keep in mind, he said, the FDA is the agency that " openly allows the

mass poisoning of the public with cancer-causing food additives such

as sodium nitrite. "

According to his website, Adams suffered from degenerative disease,

was nearly obese and diabetic by 30. He became a student of

nutrition and natural therapies and gave up all pharmaceuticals,

over-the-counter drugs, caffeine and pursued a natural foods diet

with exercise.

He lost 50 pounds, his diabetes symptoms vanished and his blood

pressured reached 105/60, so he began a writing and teaching career

on his own transformation.

An essay by Roger Wicke at Rocky Mountain Hi Herbal noted, " The

unstated purpose of the FDA, and similar organizations in many other

countries, is and always has been the protection of major

pharmaceutical company profits. Expensive testing protocols act as a

way to keep drugs and herbs within the control of the international

cartels. While such tests may make sense for newly synthesized drugs

with no track record in cultural tradition or popular usage, they

are inappropriate for herb and food products, especially those with

a long history of usage. "

The FDA, in its announcement, said the federal government has been

investigating and monitoring " complementary and alternative

medicine " since 1992. It also said " depending on the … therapy or

practice, a product used … may be subject to regulation. "

Secondly, it noted, the law does not exempt alternative medicine

products from regulation.

Alan Stang, writing on etherzone.com, was a little more blunt.

" Recently we wrote about the 72-year-old Florida grandmother whom

the Food and Drug Administration Nazis are charging with a couple of

felonies and some misdemeanors for helping cancer victims get the

laetrile (Vitamin B-17) they need, " he wrote. " Now here come these

same offspring of unmarried female canines, with a scheme that may

outlaw dietary supplements… "

He said where such laws already have kicked in, Echinacea, which

recharges the immune system, used to cost $14 a bottle, but now is

$153. " Because they work, they have now become 'drugs,' " he said.

" Not content to dominate the drug trade and send your prescription

drugs into the $tratosphere, the Food & Drug Administration is now

trying (yet again) to take over the entire health food and

nutritional supplement industry so they can shut it down forever,

leaving expensive FDA-approved drugs – with their myriad side

effects – as your only option for treating anything from Alzheimer's

to zits, " wrote Jim Rutz, in a WND column.

" The FDA hacks are pooh-poohing the significance of the new

guidelines as toothless suggestions that merely 'clarify'

and 'change nothing.' Yeah, right. In truth, they're following the

classic procedure for passing outrageous laws that wouldn't have a

chance without an incremental, camel-nose-under-the-tent approach, "

he said.

" In reality, 2006D-0480 would eventually change everything,

including your life expectancy. The FDA realizes that alternative

medicine has far, far more solutions to chronic diseases than

mainline medicine does ... and that panics them… "

WND also has reported on an agreement by the FDA and the Federal

Trade Commission to a Trilateral Cooperation Charter with

counterparts in Canada and Mexico under the auspices of NAFTA and

the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America that will

elevate the crackdown on public access to food supplements and

vitamins.

" The purpose is to make an end run around any domestic law that

interferes with food and drug multi-national corporate profits, "

John Hammell, a critic of the plan, told WND.

Hammell is the founder of International Advocates for Health

Freedom, an advocacy group created to fight globalists' efforts to

regulate alternative health treatments, including herbs, dietary

supplements, and vitamins.

" A key goal of the Trilateral Cooperation Charter is to limit the

public's access to food supplements and vitamins that are

fundamental to many types of alternative medicine, " Hammell

said. " The Trilateral Cooperation Charter is determined to attack

the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 by moving to

merge our food and drug regulations with those of Canada and Mexico,

both of whom are far more restrictive on dietary supplements. "

He believes the agenda of the Trilateral Cooperation Charter

reflects a globalist desire to advance the interests of the large

pharmaceutical companies by reining in the food supplements industry

worldwide.

He points to efforts such as the Codex Alimentarius Commission that

was created in 1963 by the Food and Agricultural Organization and

the World Health Organization, both official groups within the

United Nations.

" The Codex Alimentarius Commission claims that their main purpose is

to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair trade practices

in the food trade worldwide, " Hammell explained to WND. " But the

truth is that the Codex Alimentarius Commission is dominated by

corporate multi-national interests that do not have as their primary

concern the health interests of the people they claim they are in

business to protect, not if that health interest is better served by

alternative food supplements and alternative medicine. They have a

business with disease – it's not in their best interests that people

be healthy. "

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April 25, 2007

It will mean going to a doctor. The law is in effect already in Europe and

Canada. A lady in France is in prison for selling Vitamin C.

Even if we win this year they wont go away.

I strongly suggest you get some wolf berry planted. You will need it. It is

also known as Goji or matrimony vine.

The dried berries are about 2% vitamin C by weight. You should get a quart of

berries per plant.

In China it is used to treat hepatitis. The berry is loaded with C, E, A, and

glycosides that stimulate immune function. Grows in poor soil and withstands

Montana winters. Doesnt like desert heat though. Maybe with lots of water - not

sure.

Why it isnt in every garden is beyond me.

Kirk

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