Dietary supplements threatened!

[zengrifter]

Health freedom community rallies against
passage of FDA Revitalization Act of 2007

Monday, April 30, 2007
Dietary supplements threatened,
freedom in danger

by Byron Richards,
founder of Wellness Resources
(www.WellnessResources.com)

Bill S1082: The Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (also called the Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 2007) is one of the greatest scams and con jobs ever foisted on the American public. Current FDA management is grossly incompetent on the subject of drug safety. This new legislation drastically increases FDA management’s power. Each day innocent citizens die at the hands of Big Pharma – oftentimes while the FDA hides known risks and condones the very drugs that cause harm – all in the name of profit at the expense of human health. See my extensive analysis of this legislation.

Bill S1082 pretends to address drug safety while in fact proposing a set of laws that helps hide existing risks while ushering in the next generation of extreme drug risk (the Critical Path Initiative). At the same time the bill dramatically broadens FDA regulatory power to attack dietary supplements and health freedom. The FDA has done such a lousy job protecting Americans that Congress now feels compelled to throw even more money at the agency, deepening the financial ties with Big Pharma.

...more - http://www.newstarget.com/021819.html

[zengrifter]

FDA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ELIMINATE
VITAMIN COMPANIES

By Byron J. Richards, CCN
June 27, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with business and intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from the market. The FDA announcement came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under the guise of a final rule for dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (CGMPs). Within this 800 page rule the FDA states, “We find that this final rule will have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.... Establishments with above average costs, and even establishments with average costs, could be hard pressed to continue to operate. Some of these may decide it is too costly and either change product lines or go out of business.... 140 very small [less than 20 employees] and 32 small dietary supplement manufacturers [less than 500 employees] will be at risk of going out of business.... costs per establishment are proportionally higher for very small than for large establishments....The regulatory costs of this final rule will also discourage new small businesses from entering the industry.”

...more - http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron36.htm

[zengrifter]

The world according to the FDA and Big Pharma
As clear-thinking people, natural health consumers sometimes look at the actions of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and wonder what planet its decision makers seem to be from. It's like the FDA is living in a completely different world ...making decisions based on beliefs borrowed from some upside-down universe where synthetic chemicals are safe, but herbs and supplements are dangerous

[ChefJJ]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

synthetic chemicals are safe, but herbs and supplements are dangerous

...and so is marijuana...