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Cornering the market. Not quite CM, but the freedoms violated should make us a

little watchful.

 

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Regulation/FDA-finds-vitamin-B6-form-not-leg\

al-in-supplements

 

also;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In response to petition from a big drug company, Vitamin B6, you’ve

 

known of it, and likely taken it for years, has been declared a dru\

g

 

by the FDA.  What could be so bad about it that the FDA is ruling\

 that

 

some varieties be pulled from the shelves and not sold as dietary

supplements?

 

 

 

Pyridoxamine is a compound that makes up vitamin B6. It has been

 

readily available, and easily sold for years as a dietary supplement.

 

Up until recently, there has been no news about it. Even now, the n\

ews

 

that does exist is somewhat under the radar.  In 2005, a

 

pharmaceutical company called Biostratum began developing a new drug

 

to treat diabetic kidney disease. The only hitch in the plan came wh\

en

 

investors in the company found that the only active ingredient in thi\

s

 

new drug (Pyidorin) was pyridoxamine. Pyridorin had already gone

 

through two phases of clinical trials, so by now so much money had

 

been spent that petitioning to have pyridoxamine declared as a drug

was not out of order.

 

 

 

After this bombshell revelation they lost funding for phase three of

 

clinical trials, even though the first two had been successful.

 

Success that was due mainly to the inclusion of an existing dietary

 

supplement. Now what? Change the formulation? Rethink the original

 

strategy? Ban the previously sold, naturally occurring supplement

 

altogether? If you guessed the third option then you could probably

 

secure a position in Biostratums board of directors because that’s

 

exactly what they did. Biostratum fought  to ban all previously

 

existing forms of pyridoxamine and label them as “adulteratedâ€.

 

 

 

Earlier this year the FDA ruled that pyridoxamine can no longer be

 

sold and their direct comment on the issue was “To allow such an

 

article to be marketed as a dietary supplement would not be fair to

 

the pharmaceutical company that brought, or intends to bring, the drug

to market.â€

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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