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FDA Con Game
Please read this report from Mike Adams on the recent FDA move to
remove your rights in regulating where they don't belong. It is
important that you take action to stop this con game.
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Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements,
herbs and juices as "drugs"
11 April 2007 - By Mike Adams - newstarget.com
When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end
game. A new FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website,
reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs
and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and
massage rocks will be classified as "medical devices" and require FDA
approval. The document is called Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft
Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA is accepting public comments on the docket until April 30th.
They tried to sneak this under the radar, but word got out and now the
natural health community is up in arms over this rule. If you wish to
protect your access to nutritional supplements, herbs, essential oils,
homeopathic medicine or any other "complementary" or "alternative"
modality, it is crucial that you take action to post your comments
with the FDA right now and write your representatives in
Washington to put a stop to this outrageous effort to destroy natural
medicine. (And be sure to really write them. Just sending an email has
virtually no impact compared to writing a physical letter in your own
words.)
Click here for the direct link to the FDA's comment posting page for
this docket.
This move by the FDA is designed to once and for all destroy the 1994
DSHEA law that has made supplements "legal" while eliminating
nutritional supplements and natural medicine from the United States,
ensuring monopoly profits and control by drug companies and the FDA.
It is the latest action item by the FDA / Big Pharma conspiracy that
will not stop until health freedom has been abolished, drug companies
rule the nation, and every citizen is diagnosied with a fictitious
disease and drugged up on monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals.
FDA "experts" will decide what's a drug or medical device
Under these proposed guidelines, FDA "experts" (the same corrupt
officials who reapproved Vioxx after it killed over 50,000 Americans)
will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple devices
like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical devices.
If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things
are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped
from the shelves, and regulated out of existence. Anyone who dares to
manufacture, promote or sell such products may be branded a criminal
and rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well established history
of suppressing natural medicine.
I've documented much of the criminal history of the FDA in my recent
book,
Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing
About Them, which suddenly seems even more relevant today than
when I wrote it. In that book, I documented the FDA ordered book
burnings, the raids on vitamin shops, the kidnapping of natural health
practitioners, the threats, intimidation and oppression tactics that
have been used to suppress natural medicine for nearly a hundred years
now. And now, with this CAM Products Regulation effort, the FDA is
about to deal a final, fatal blow to the alternative medicine
industry, outlawing nutritional supplements, functional foods,
homeopathy and natural therapies all at once.
This is not a drill. It really is time to be alarmed. Nothing else
I've written about this year is as important as this sinister plot to
destroy natural medicine and force the American population to resort
to dangerous prescription medications sold at monopoly prices under a
system of medical tyranny.
Your access to vitamins, supplements, herbs, and even energy medicine
modalities is now directly threatened, and you have until April 30 to
make your voice heard.
Action items
First, read the document yourself.
Click here for the PDF version.
Take special care to notice the following text, taken directly from
the FDA's own document: (italicized text is from the FDA, with my own
translation following)
"...a product used in a CAM therapy or practice may be subject to
regulation as a biological product, cosmetic, drug, device, or food
(including food additives and dietary supplements) under the act or
the PHS Act. Second, neither the act nor the PHS Act exempts CAM
products from regulation."
Translation: Anything used in any system of medicine may now be
regulated as a drug or medical device by the FDA. This includes a
biofeedback machine, acupuncture needles, a cup of herbal tea, massage
oil, a glass of vegetable juice or even a bottle of water.
"...if a person decides to produce and sell raw vegetable juice for
use in juice therapy to promote optimal health... [and] if the juice
therapy is intended for use as part of a disease treatment regimen
instead of for the general wellness, the vegetable juice would also be
subject to regulation as a drug under the Act."
Translation: Raw vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug and must
be FDA approved as a drug if it has any health effect whatsoever.
Handing a cup of raw vegetable juice to someone and telling them it's
good for the detoxification of their liver will get you arrested for
practicing medicine without a license and promoting an "unapproved
drug."
..."biologically based practices" includes, but is not limited to,
botanicals, animal-derived extracts, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids,
amino acids, proteins, prebiotics and probiotics: whole diets, and
"functional foods". ...a botanical product intended for use in
treating a disease would generally be regulated as a drug."
..."functional foods" may be subject to FDA regulation as foods,
dietary supplements, or drugs under the Act.
Translation: All foods, supplements, superfoods and functional foods
may be reclassified as drugs by the FDA, then regulated off the
market.
If... the manipulative and body-based practices involve the use of
equipment (such as massage devices) or the application of a product
(such as a lotion, cream, or oil) to the skin or other parts of the
body, those products may be subject to regulation under the Act."
Translation: Massage oils and creams will be regulated as "drugs" and
acupuncture needles as "medical devices." Taking this absurdity one
step further, massage therapists who use their fingers to touch
patients may have their fingers regulated as "medical devices" and be
accused of practicing medicine for merely touching patients.
Things that will be regulated out of existence
It is very clear that the FDA is intending to regulate and ultimately
destroy the entire CAM industry (Complementary and Alternative
Medicine). Based on the explanations in the FDA's own document, the
following things are likely to occur:
* All vitamins, nutritional supplements and functional foods
will be stripped of their structure & function claims, reducing them
to empty labels where virtually nothing at all is allowed to be
stated.
* Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug. Raw juice retreats will
be raided or shut down.
* Growing and selling common garden herbs will get you arrested as a
drug dealer.
* Massage oils and handheld massagers will be regulated as "medical
devices."
* Yoga props, pilates machines and weight machines will be regulated
as "medical devices" and require FDA approval before being sold or
used.
* Raw sprouts and other anti-cancer foods will be regulated as drugs.
* Bottled water that "treats" dehydration will be regulated as a drug.
* Massage therapists who use hot rocks as part of their therapy will
have the ROCKS regulated as medical devices! (It's true. The FDA will
actually look at a pile of rocks and declare, "Those are medical
devices!")
* Functional foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies
will disappear from store shelves, pending FDA "review." (The only
things remaining will be processed junk foods and pharmaceuticals,
which is exactly what Big Business wants.)
* Therapeutic tea products, such as green tea, will be outlawed and
confiscated.
* Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for "practicing
medicine without a license."
* Citizens owning personal inventories of "unapproved drugs" (vitamins
and herbs) may have their homes raided at gunpoint and their
inventories confiscated by armed law enforcement agents.
* The importation of herbs and functional foods from all countries may
be banned.
Keep in mind that the FDA is the same agency that:
* Wants to label irradiated foods as "pasteurized."
* Voted to put the deadly drug Vioxx back on the market after tens of
thousands of deaths, even after its own manufacurer pulled it from
pharmacies.
* Raided a church at gunpoint, confiscating biofeedback machines and
charging that they were "practicing medicine" by counseling church
members on issues like depression.
* Openly allows corrupt, "on the take" experts to vote on new drug
approvals, even when those experts are taking money from the same
companies impacted by their votes.
* Refuses to legalize stevia, the safe, natural herbal sweetener
that's used virtually everywhere else in the world. The agenda?
Protect the profits of aspartame and other chemical sweeteners.
* Openly allows the mass poisoning of the public with cancer-causing
food additives such as sodium nitrite.
* Refuses to enforce its own laws regarding unsafe chemical toxins in
personal care products, allowing perfume and lotion companies to
continue poisoning the public with cancer-causing chemicals that don't
even have to be listed on the label, nor proven safe.
* Ordered the destruction of recipe books that mentioned stevia. (A
campaign to keep the public ignorant of the herb.)
* Does everything in its power to protect drug company profits,
including discrediting herbs, supplements and alternative medicine.
Does anyone honestly believe that this criminal organization has any
capacity whatsoever to act in the public interest? Even many Senators
are fed up with the FDA's unprecedented level of corruption and
criminal behavior.
Action items, continued...
Read Jon Barron's comments on this rule at
the JonBarron.org website
Next, lodge your complaint against the FDA by commenting on this
docket through
the FDA's docket comment form.
And finally, write your Senator or Congressperson about this issue and
let them know, in blatant language, that you will not stand by and
allow the criminals running medicine today to take away your access to
vitamins, supplements, herbs and homeopathic medicine. Write the
letter in your own words, even if it's just two sentences. Individual
letters have a hundred times the impact of form letters.
Medical wasteland USA
Everything is at stake here. If the FDA gets its way, the United
States will become a medical wasteland, dominated by corporate drug
company interests, where the naturopaths are imprisoned and their
products destroyed. Supplements and herbs will become contraband, and
gardeners who grow their own medicinal herbs may be raided and
arrested by DEA agents wielding assault rifles. Simply selling dried
broccoli sprouts as being "good anti-cancer foods" may land you in
prison, and running a vitamin shop could result in you being arrested
for "practicing medicine."
Imagine a nation where Whole Foods stores are stripped of all herbs
and supplements, where vitamin shops are emptied and abandoned, where
books that promote herbs are bulldozed into large piles and burned,
where natural healers are rounded up and "disappeared" into
incarceration centers. This is the future that will become reality if
the FDA has its way. The plan has been explained to us in plain
language. Any agency that openly states "vegetable juice will be
regulated as a drug" has quite simply lost its marbles. We're are now
clearly being regulated by clinically insane bureaucrats.
With this desperate proposal by the FDA -- clearly designed as a
last-ditch effort to save the failing conventional medical industry
from a massive public shift towards natural medicine -- the war
against health freedom has reached our shores, and the FDA is plotting
a 9/11-style attack to bring down the towers of health freedom in one
swift motion.
This is the same agency that currently represents the greatest threat
to the health and safety of the American people, far outweighing the
threat of real terrorism. This agency, we have seen, will do ANYTHING
to protect the profits and power of drug companies. It will lie,
steal, accept bribes, hide scientific evidence, distort statistics,
commit scientific fraud, break federal laws, threaten its own drug
safety scientists, conspire with drug company executives, intimidate
American citizens and use terror-style tactics to achieve its goals of
complete domination over foods, drugs and health.
Why do Americans tolerate terrorism in their own government?
It is time we put a stop to this home-grown tyranny. We have fought
too hard for freedom in the United States to allow us all to be
steamrolled by a criminal front group covertly working for Big Pharma.
The FDA has declared war on natural medicine and the American
people, and we will lose our family members, children, brothers
and sisters as casualties of this war if we don't stand up now and
demand radical changes. It's time to stop this terrorist organization
from destroying the lives of yet more U.S. citizens.
Make your voice heard now, or forever surrender your access to
supplements, herbs, superfoods and functional foods. By the time the
FDA is done with this country, we'll all be eating medication for
breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Action reminders:
1. Lodge a complaint with the FDA by
clicking here. MAKE SURE you include the docket number 2006D-0480.
But don't trust this to be enough. The FDA will probably simply delete
half the complaints it receives, so don't trust your complaint to
actually count. It's important to continue...
2. Send a strongly-worded letter to your representatives in
Washington. Be sure to cite Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance
for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and
Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. Tell them
you support open access to vitamins, herbs, and supplements, and you
do not want CAM to be regulated by the FDA.
3. Send this story to everyone you know. Spread the word. Raise the
alarm. With enough public support, the FDA will be forced to back off
this insane proposal.
And stay tuned to NewsTarget for more news, analysis and action alerts
on health freedom. Even though we're under constant attack by criminal
organizations trying to disrupt our servers and take us off line,
we're still here, beating the drum for health freedom, and hoping that
we have enough sane-minded Americans remaining to save this country
from its government.
Actual FDA quote is gobbledygook
Here's an actual FDA statement from the CAM Guidance report:
For example, naturopathic cranberry tablets might be labeled for
use to maintain the health of the urinary tract. In this example, the
cranberry tablets generally would be regulated as "dietary
supplements" ...if they were labeled for use to "maintain the health
of the urinary tract" rather than "prevent urinary tract infections."
The cranberry tablets would be regulated as "drugs" ...if they were
labeled for use to "treat urinary tract infections" even if they were
labeled as dietary supplements.
Additional phone numbers as listed in the FDA document
Sheryl Lard-Whiteford at 301-827-0379
Daniel Nguyen at 301-827-8971
Ted Stevens at 301-594-1184
Wayne Amchin at 301-827-6739 |
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