Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"
By Mike Adams
NewsTarget/Truth Publishing, April 11, 2007
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 Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and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. See it at www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/E7-3259.htm
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.
www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/commentsmain.cfm?EC_DOCUMENT_ID=1451&SUBTYP=NEXT&CID=&AGENCY=FDA
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 diagnosed 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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