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FDA Wants Natural Medicine Dead
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 web site, reveals plans to reclassify 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 Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.”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 30. 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 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 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act 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 and Big Pharma conspiracy that will not stop until health freedom for Americans has been abolished.
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.
Take special care to notice the following text, taken directly from the FDA’s own document: “[A] product used in a CAM [complementary and alternative medicine] 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 [Public Health Service] Act. Second, neither the act nor the PHS Act exempts CAM products from regulation.”
In other words, 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.
The document continues: “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 general wellness, the vegetable juice would also be subject to regulation as a drug 
The proposed measure also states: “ ‘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.”
This translates to mean that all foods, supplements, “superfoods” and functional foods may be reclassified as drugs by the FDA, then regulated off the market. It is very clear that the FDA is intending to regulate and ultimately destroy the entire complementary and alternative medicine industry.
Experts say the following things are likely to occur:
• All vitamins, nutritional supplements and functional foods will be stripped of their structure and function claims, reducing them to empty labels.
• 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 and weight machines will be regulated.
• 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.
• Functional foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will disappear from store shelves, pending FDA “review.”
• Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for “practicing medicine without a license.”
• Citizens owning personal inventories of “unapproved drugs” (vitamins & herbs) may have their homes raided.
• 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 manufacturer 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 obviously in a conflict of interest.
• 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.
• Does everything in its power to protect drug company profits, including discrediting herbs, supplements and alternative medicine.
Write your senators and congressman about this issue and let them know 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.
More phone numbers 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
Author and journalist Mike Adams is with NewsTarget, an Internet site focused on health, wellness and medicine. His article appeared on the site. For more information go to newstarget.com .
(Issue #17 & 18, April 23 & 30, 2007)
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