Health Freedom Warning: Drug Company Seeks to Outlaw Vitamin B6 to Protect Pharma Profits

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might be implimented. But I plan to stock up on B-6 now. Does anyone

know if unopened bottles can be refrigerated or frozen for longer

shelf life?

 

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June 25, 2008 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews

 

(HealthFreedomReport) Big Pharma is constantly finding new ways to

destroy the natural supplements market, in much the same way that the

American Medical Association once sought to destroy the chiropractic

industry (for which it was later found guilty of conspiracy in U.S.

courts, by the way). The latest attack against vitamins comes from an

FDA petition filed by Medicure Pharma, Inc., which has astonishingly

asked the FDA to ban the sale of Vitamin B6!

 

Vitamin B6, of course, is a naturally-occurring nutrient found in

numerous vegetables, nuts and whole grains. Its natural form is called

pyridoxal 5'-phosphate or P5P for short. It's an essential nutrient

for expectant mothers, growing children and anyone who wishes to be

healthy. It's absolutely crucial for healthy blood cell function, and

it's used in over 100 enzymatic reactions involving protein

metabolism.

 

So why would a pharmaceutical company petition the FDA to outlaw the

sale of this essential nutrient? It's simple: Because Big Pharma wants

to market its own form of Vitamin B6 and call it a " drug. "

 

Medicure Pharma, Inc., has been studying the clinical effects of

Vitamin B6 (which they call " MC-1 " ) on humans. This is part of a

process for receiving FDA approval on MC-1 as a " drug, " and then

marketing this drug through the conventional medical system (and

selling it at markups that can reach 500,000% over the cost of the

actual ingredients).

 

This issue was reported by the Alliance for Natural Health, an

outstanding health freedom organization that deserves your support.

You can read about this Vitamin B6 issue (along with links to the

petition) at:

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail & o=09000\

0648051908f

 

Obviously, it is in the financial interest of Medicure Pharma, Inc. to

not only receive FDA approval for their " MC-1 " version of Vitamin B6;

it's also crucial to eliminate the competition. After all, if people

knew MC-1 was just Vitamin B6, they could go out and buy it on their

own, for a fraction of the price of a prescription drug. This is most

likely why Medicure Pharma petitioned the FDA to outlaw Vitamin B6

supplements: It's the simplest and easiest way to eliminate the

competition and guarantee profits!

 

Screwy logic, biopiracy and Big Pharma scams

 

So what's the logic behind banning Vitamin B6? It's simple: Medicare

Pharma wants the FDA to declare Vitamin B6 to be " adulterated " because

it contains a drug. Which drug does it contain? Well, MC-1, of course!

 

Do you see the circular reasoning here? Vitamin B6 is a

naturally-occurring vitamin, but if a drug company gets FDA approval

on Vitamin B6 (with a different name), then that very same drug

company can petition the FDA to ban Vitamin B6, claiming it contains

their drug!

 

I know this sounds incredibly stupid. And it is. But it isn't

unprecedented. In fact, the very same thing happened with red yeast

rice.

 

A few years ago, drug companies discovered that red yeast rice (a

natural supplement) contained powerful, natural compounds that balance

cholesterol levels. These compounds are called lovastatins (sound

familiar?)

 

Drug companies ripped off the lovastatin molecules from red yeast

rice, then patented them. Once they achieved FDA approval for their

" statin drugs, " it was easy to file a petition requesting the

outlawing of red yeast rice, claiming the supplement was " adulterated "

with drugs! Which drugs? Statin drugs, of course -- the very same

drugs that were isolated from red yeast rice in the first place!

 

This is why the FDA has been on a terror campaign to outlaw red yeast

rice supplements. They've sent warning letters to online retailers and

threatened numerous companies with legal action. The point of all this

is to eliminate red yeast rice from the marketplace because it

competes with statin drugs. And it's the exact same strategy now being

following by Medicure Pharma in its attempt to get the FDA to ban

Vitamin B6.

 

 

Was it a move out of financial desperation?

Medicure Pharma, by the way, is losing its shirt. It recently received

notice from the American Stock Exchange that it would be " delisted "

because it no longer meets the minimum requirement for shareholder

equity vs. ongoing fiscal losses. In other words, the company is

losing too much money and has too little shareholder equity to even

stay listed in the American Stock Exchange.

 

This might explain its decision to petition the FDA to outlaw the sale

of Vitamin B6 (P5P). If consumers were unable to buy the vitamins,

many would have no choice but to seek out the company's own patented,

high-profit MC-1 version of the vitamin, and that would generate a

windfall of profits!

 

Making money in the pharmaceutical industry, you see, is not about

helping people in any real way; it's about limiting their options,

controlling the marketplace, and forcing people to buy products from

you at monopoly prices.

 

This is, in fact, the underlying business model of the entire

pharmaceutical industry: Selling drugs at monopoly prices while

outlawing competing products. Any approval by the FDA is, in effect, a

license to engage in monopolistic market practices. And remarkably,

the FDA even enforces this monopoly by threatening, intimidating and

raiding the warehouses of competing product companies, especially if

they're in the " natural " products industry.

 

Even more remarkably, the FTC, which claims to protect fair market

practices in the United States, has utterly ignored the monopoly

practices of Big Pharma. Yes, the same government office that went

after Microsoft for creating a " monopoly " user interface in Windows

seems to have no interest whatsoever in going after drug companies

engaged in widespread, fraudulent monopoly marketing practices that

are bankrupting the entire nation! (How's that for selective

enforcement of trade practices?)

 

 

We must either stop the FDA, or lose all access to herbs and supplements

Do you see where all this is ultimately headed? If the FDA is allowed

to keep banning nutritional supplements while promoting the very same

drugs synthesized from those natural sources, it could allow Big

Pharma to commit widespread biopiracy, stealing all the good medicine

from nature, claiming patent protection on the useful molecules, and

getting the FDA to outlaw virtually all the natural substances from

which those medicines were first derived.

 

It's not a particularly brilliant strategy, but it is exceedingly

effective at defrauding the public out of trillions of dollars in

dishonest profits. And the fact that this is going on today gives

additional support to something I've proposed for quite some time:

Ending all patent protection on medicines, genes and seeds.

 

I say, there should never be a financial incentive for corporations to

deny the People access to information and products that could halt

disease, end suffering, and enhance their health. And yet today's

conventional medical system is set up precisely to profit from the

ongoing disease of the People.

 

It is a system that offers no cures, no education and no honest

information to the public about real health solutions. It only offers

a lifetime of ever-more-expensive patented pharmaceuticals that lead

to a downward spiral of bad health and bad debt until more and more

American families are left diseased and penniless, victims of a

profiteering system of medicine that trades lives for profits as the

foundation of its business model.

 

About the author: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, is the editor of

NaturalNews. Author of over twelve books, and fifteen hundred articles

on natural health, Adams is widely considered the most prolific writer

on natural health today.

 

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