Re: Emergency Alert: Stop EPA From Further Regulating Colloidal Silver as a "Pesticide"

Amen to that, wolf!

I have found people to be surprisingly apathetic to this issue.  Even among people in the natural health industry.  They don't seem to realize that once so-called "nano-silver" is regulated, every health product on earth containing "nano-particles" are going to be regulated. 

If you go to this web site  of the Project on Emerging NanoTechnologies(http://www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer/browse/categories/food_be...)  you will see they are already keeping lists of every nutritonal supplement that contains nano-particles. 

There are five pages of products listed, including B-vitamin sprays, calcium/magnesium supplements, microhydrin, spirulina products, and more, along with numerous colloidal silver-based products. 

All of these are being watched.  Once they get EPA involved in "regulating" nano-particles, any health product on earth that has any amount of nano-particles in the ingredients will be singled out for "regulation." 

The apathy from the natural health community on this issue is stunning to me.  The comments on the EPA comments site are running a good 10 to 1 in favor of greater regulation of silver as a "pesticide" by the EPA. 

That's not because more people believe the EPA should regulate silver as a "pesticide."  It's because the fake "consumer protection" organizations behind this assault on silver have been able to rally their supporters in greater numbers to go to the EPA web site and post favorable comments on the petition to have EPA regulate silver products.  Natural health advocates have been extremely lazy, and are not going to the EPA web site to register their comments against the further regulation of silver by the EPA.

Even colloidal silver manufacturers and distributors don't seem to realize that their companies are in dire jeopardy at this point.  For if the EPA accepts that petition and begins to regulate "nanosilver," then colloidal silver manufacturers and distributors will have to do environmental impact reports costing hundreds of thousand if not millions of dollars to prove their products will not harm the environment, or harm "environmentally sensitive" microorganisms, as I explain in the articles on my blog at www.colloidalsilversecrets.blogspot.com.  I don't know of any colloidal silver manufacturer or distributor who has that kind of money to throw away on environmental impact studies.  They will be out of business before you know it.  Or the price of a bottle of colloidal silver will have to go to $100 just so the companies can pay for the studies.

Please, everybody reading this, do your part and help stop the EPA from regulating silver products as "pesticides."  The hidden agenda behind this is to remove colloidal silver products from the marketplace.  They will also eliminate colloidal silver generators as "pesticide producing" machines, and they will try to regulate supplies for colloidal silver generators, such as silver wire, silver bars, etc. You'll have to have a jewelers license to order them.

Anyone who wants to post to the EPA comments system can do so at this web address:  http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=SubmitComment&o...

Anyone wishing to email EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson with their comments against the petition to have silver regulated as a “pesticide” can do so here:  johnson.stephen@epa.gov

Additionally, faxes can be sent to EPA, addressed to Administrator Stephen Johnson, at:  Fax: 202-501-1450  

All comments must reference Docket # EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650.  

Also, comments should reference the “Petition for Rulemaking Requesting EPA Regulate Nanoscale Silver Products as Pesticides.”

Let the EPA know that until actual evidence of environmental harm by "nanosilver" is demonstrated, there is no need for new regulations or oversight.  Also, point out that the term "nanosilver" is being so broadly defined as anything up to 100 nm, that just about every colloidal silver product on earth will be in danger of being labeled a "pesticide" and would require oversight and regulation, even though these products have been widely used for over 90 years with no documented environmental harm whatsoever.

Regards,

Spencer