FTC and FDA **was** Young Living

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Hey Anya,

 

> >Why not? Kathleen just posted a couple of posts to Idma (you should

> >post them here Kathleen) where the YL hearty is telling their folks

> >(for the record) to straighten the frig up and stop claiming this and

> >that .. and stop calling MR. Gary Young .. Dr. Young. Means to me

> >the FDA done got on their butts like ugly on a wart hawg.

>

> Hi Butch:

> Just to finely-tune a point many get wrong: it's the FTC that cracks

> down on false claims, whether it's about an exercise machine or an

> essential oil.

 

Correct .. I probably should have written FTC & FDA ... but there is

some overlap there of jurisdiction there. Kinda like the FBI and DEA.

When the DEA opens a case it is almost always within the purview of the

FBI too.

 

> The FDA can crack down on a product (not a mechanical or non-drug

> product) that is proven defective or dangerous, like ephedra.

 

OR .. claims of cures that have NOT been evaluated and approved by the

FDA. The FDA doesn't approve it .. and we advertise .. then we have the

FDA and the FTC on our butts .. right?

 

> The FTC oversees all 'trade', the FDA oversees all 'drugs'. The FTC

> can move faster and with more clout to close down a business, any kind

> of business, for false claims. The FDA can only take a product

> related to 'drug' off the market, whether it's ephedra or a

> poorly-designed heart pump.

 

In that regard .. right you are. I watched an interesting interview for

maybe an hour with the FDA chairman(?) or director(?) on CSPAN while I

was in the USA .. subject was primarily Canadian drugs but these issues

were discussed and there was definitely layover and enforcement of

mutual interests.

 

But I guess clearly it is the FTC that gets you for making the claim to

the public and the FDA who gets you for having the unproved product on

the shelf in the second place. The YL folks were clear in relating:

 

" Once Young Living (or an Independent Distributor selling the product

directly to consumers) uses a testimonial relating an experience of

treating a disease with the products, those products then become subject

to regulation by the FDA as " drugs, " requiring government approval

before they can be lawfully marketed. "

 

But the advertising on their sites would definitely be under the

regulatory control of the FTC.

 

Good to clarify this .. and odds are that if a person owning a shop,

like I do in Maryland, is visited my some Big Brother Gummit Folks, they

gonna be FDA folks .. not FTC folks .. cause on my site there is not

even ONE claim. ;-)

 

> HTH.

> Anya

> http://member.newsguy.com/~herblady

 

Y'all keep smiling. Butch http://www.AV-AT.com