FDA Trying To Control All Nutritional Supplements By Labeling Them "Drugs"; to include probiotics and prebiotics

Dear group:

The following is some rather alarming material from
Mike Adams of
http://www.NewsTarget.com.
I do not believe
that Mike is overstating things at all. Anyone who
reads the Federal Docket that the FDA is trying to
push through, as I did, would be alarmed. This stuff
is as scary as it gets.

In essence, the FDA is trying to use their regulatory
control to gain the power to label almost everything
used in complementary and alternative medicine as
"drugs". This would include labeling as "drugs"
nutritional supplements such as vitamins, minerals,
essential fatty acids, amino acids, probiotics,
prebiotics, digestive enzymes, etc. It would also
include labeling as "drugs" "functional foods", herbs,
and even raw vegetable juices! (as well as much more).
This is totally nuts.

As you may well know, the drug approval process
commonly costs hundreds of millions of dollars for a
single drug. If nutritional supplements are labeled as
drugs, as the FDA is trying to do with the Federal
Docket they are proposing now, this will mean the end
of the free public access to nutritional supplements,
at one point or another. No nutritional supplement
manufacturer makes enough money on what they sell to
be able to afford the drug approval process for ANY
supplement that they make, much less all of them.

The FDA is totally controlled by the drug companies,
and it has been for quite some time. These drug
companies are doing everything in their power to shut
down alternative medicine altogether by the passage of
the Federal Docket that is currently before the FDA,
and by further action to follow.

The window for public comment on the blatantly
criminal agenda that the FDA is trying to push through
is April 30th. I cannot recommend enough that you
write your Senators and Congresspersons ASAP a
personal letter stating (1) that you strongly oppose
the FDA Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for
Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug
Administration, (2) that you don't want the FDA to
regulate ANY complimentary or alternative medical
substance or practice at all, and (3) that you
strongly oppose ANY nutritional supplement whatsoever
being classified by the FDA as a "drug".

Mike Adams material has greater detail on how to voice
your opposition to the FDA's current agenda to bring
all of alternative medicine under their jurisdiction
and control.

If you have any interest in alternative medicine
surviving intact, please forward some of Mike Adams
material (such as the below or something similar from
his site
http://www.NewsTarget.com)
to everyone that you
know, as well as write a personal letter (not just an
email) to every person in Congress that represents
you.

Allen Darman

http://360.yahoo.com/allen_dar


NewsTarget.com article

http://www.newstarget.com/021789.html

Originally published April 11 2007

Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to
regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"
by Mike Adams

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.

*******************************
The above is only a portion of the entire article by
Mike Adams. Go to

http://www.newstarget.com/021789.html
to see the rest.
Mike Adams website at
http://www.NewsTarget.com
has a free
newsletter that is definitely worth signing up for. Allen


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