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Originally published April 11 2007 in News Target
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 Draft Guidance for Industry on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.)
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.
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.
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
