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Natural Supplements Under Attack from FDA
Natural Supplements Under Attack from FDA.
An important message from the National Health Federation
Date: 7/11/2011 10:16:07 AM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 6726 times
8:11 am
July 11, 2011
HEADS UP!
THIS IS IMPORTANT!
http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=2938
I have been following this story for more than a year.
Codex Alimentarius aligned forces in Europe have
successfully been pushing to get all kinds of restrictions
on Natural Supplements.
Now the FSA, in alignment with Codex through
our Food Czar, Michael R. Taylor, and allies,
are pushing to push back DSHEA rules that have
been on the books giving us Supplement freedom choice
since1994.
90 DAYS TO ACT
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NEWS RELEASE
DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: KNOCKED DOWN AND COUNTING . . . ONLY 90 DAYS LEFT
By Bill Sardi
Knowledge of Health, Inc.
July 10, 2011
The dietary-supplement industry has only 90 days to comment on the FDA's new dietary ingredient guidelines,[1] which would require many supplements currently on the market (since 1994 when the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act was passed) to undergo onerous and expensive safety testing.
Some of the animal testing would require three years to complete. It is difficult to ascertain the cost of meeting these new requirements but it appears to be in the millions of dollars for each ingredient. It would take three years before any new dietary ingredient could be introduced as well. Essentially, the only way these natural medicines would remain on the market is to make them expensive prescription drugs. You are talking about many well-known supplements such as resveratrol, hyaluronic acid, piperine, curcumin, etc.
Some companies with broad product lines would have to spend $20 million to $100 million in order to keep existing products on the market. All this to just get paperwork in order as there is no clear and present danger to consumers posed by dietary supplements.
The entire 47-page document issued by the FDA is so overwhelming as to throw a mortal blow to the supplement industry. It is not known whether public outcry will influence the FDA as it is an aloof organization that is obviously responsible for protecting America's pharmaceutical industry to the point of recklessly approving prescription drugs that, like Vioxx, have killed thousands.
The supplement industry is recoiling, ready to make pleas to politicians. In other words, beg for mercy. The supplement industry could be forced to take 17 steps backward in time, to 1994, and utilize only those molecules and processes that were in existence then. The fact that the FDA dropped this guidance upon the industry like a bomb instead of gaining their input prior to its writing suggests the FDA knows what it is doing – creating a doomsday document. RIP dietary supplements unless something is done soon.
ENDNOTE
[1] The FDA Draft Guidance for Industry on New Dietary Ingredients may be read at:
http://www.thenhf.com/files/pdf/Draft_Guidance_New_NDI.pdf
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The NHF has organized a letter-writing campaign to Congress calling for it to force the FDA to rescind this document. NHF will be submitting comments against the Guidance document directly to the FDA but does not expect it to listen, as it never has unless its pharmaceutical-industry masters yank its chain. Lawsuits and mass action may need to be the second step if Congress fails to act. Stay tuned.
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National Health Federation: Established in 1955, the National Health Federation is a consumer-education, health-freedom organization working to protect individuals' rights to choose to consume healthy food, take supplements and use alternative therapies without unnecessary government restrictions. The NHF is the only such organization with recognized observer-delegate status at Codex meetings.
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BEFORE the DENNIS KUCINICH
Hearing JULY 29:
"In addition, FDA is leading an effort
through the Codex Alimentarius Commission,
the international food safety standards body,
with support of the Food and Agriculture
Organization/World Health Organization,
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--Mr MICHAEL TAYLOR
Our Food Czar for the FDA
Senior Adviser to the Commissioner on food issues
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COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT
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