Guest guest Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 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.†Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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