Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"
 
 
I know this is off topic and I do not mean to spam you board.  I just need the Admin and posters here to be aware of what the FDA is attempting to take away from everyone in the United States.  The FDA has been in the pockets of drug companies for a long time and now they are both taking steps to give you no other choice but to buy their drugs.
 
 
I do not want to promote one site so just do a google search for:
Docket No. 2006D-0480
 
Read what these sites are saying.  A couple have a link so you can give the FDA your comments directly. The FDA is trying to slip this under radar and overstep their bounds (again) .  They cannot protect us or our pets from something they already control like contaminated food.  They say they are overworked and undermanned already. I don't trust these guys one bit.
 
There is only one reason they are doing this and it is to protect their biggest customer which is the drug companies.
 
I am not saying that Pharmaceuticals are bad.  I use them just like everyone else.  We should be able to choose to take NATURAL vitamins that will keep me off the pills that the drug companies are pushing.  Even if you do not take vitamins I hope you can see how important this freedom of CHOICE is.
 
The FDA and Drug companies make no money from natural choices.  If they control it they will ban it and your only CHOICE will be the synthetic chemicals they are selling.
 
Even if you do not take natural products you can at least understand we need less goverment controlling our lives not more.
 
 
PLEASE TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK!!

Moved to more appropriate topic.


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What nonsense.  Regulating a substance doesn't mean banning it.  It only means that it must be manufactured to a set standard.  

When you buy a herbal supplement of some kind, how do you know that it contains any of the herb that it is supposed to contain?  Ot what the actual strength is?  You don't because there are no standards.  

Supplements are regulated in Europe which means that you can buy and use one without wondering and worrying about the strength and purity.

All kinds of foods are regulated and I haven't noticed any shortage of food.  Ditto with alcoholic beverages.

FDA has just cracked down on several herbal sleep aid products, one by Herbal Life if I remember the brand name correctly, because these HERBAL sleep aids contained a benzodiazapine.

I can see where you are coming from and could almost agree w/you - BUT - there is the other side of the coin, like the one above. There is no overseer of these "natural" products and their production. Several years ago I remember Colloidal Silver being forced off the market for contaminated ingredients or undisclosed ingredients that caused some serious side effects. There have been others but since I'm not much "into" the "naturopathic products I don't remember products or product names.


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Yep, I have no problem with regulation when it comes to establishing standards that products have to meet in order to be sold to the public. That is *not* the same thing as banning them.

Awhile back I was researching weight loss drugs, and found out that the lack of regulation means that you pretty much have no idea what you're getting with a lot of these products. "Hoodia" was a prime example of that, I read a report/study that out of 20 products evaluated, only 2-3 actually had the actual real ingredient at the dosage the label claimed.


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just because it's regulated does'nt mean it's safe...the fda doesn't know all

Well, I don't think that the FDA is going to regulate something without finding out if it's safe.  That would part of the regulation!