Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as

 

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 Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and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.

 

 

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.

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

PLEASE FOLLOW-UP ON THIS..FOR YOUR HEALTH AND FREEDOM!

FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE YOU KNOW!!!!

THIS IS NO JOKE..IMAGINE VEGETABLE JUICES WILL BE OUTLAWED AND

REGULATED AS A DRUG!!!

AGAINST OUR CONSTITUTION AND MORE IMPORTANTLY OUR G-D GIVEN

RIGHTS TO LIFE!!

CONTACT YOUR STATE SENATORS, INCLUDE THE DOCKET#'S...The

document is called Docket No. 2006D-0480.

LODGE A COMPLAINT TO FDA..WRITE DIRECTLY..THEY CAN EASILY DELETE

EMAILS....

 

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