Feds eye control of vitamins, supplements - even water!

April 25, 2007

FDA looks to regulate natural substances as drugs, with prescriptions from

doctors

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Posted: April 24, 2007

9:30 p.m. Eastern

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55370

By Bob Unruh

FDA Commissioner von Echenbach

The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs and other

natural substances, including water when it is used to " treat " dehydration,

should be classified as drugs, and opponents have only until April 30 to express

their concern about the proposals under Docket No. 2006D-0480.

The government agency under the direction of C. von Eschenbach, who

became commissioner in 2006, also has put its " Complementary and Alternative

Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration " on a

fast track for implementation.

But parents' groups, natural remedy interests, food and herb businesses and

others are horrified. A group called Gentle Christian Mothers alerted its

constituency in no uncertain terms.

" Please Read!!! The FDA is trying to regulate all things that are considered by

them to be treatment for disease. They want to regulate vitamins, herbs,

alternative therapies (things like hot stone therapy), even down to juices and

holy water, " the warning said. " It might mean having to go to a doctor or

medical professional for vitamins. "

The website noted that among likely developments if the FDA has its way:

a.. Growing and selling common garden herbs will get you arrested as a drug

dealer.

b.. Massage oils and handheld massagers will be regulated as " medical

devices. "

c.. Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug.

d.. Weight machines will be regulated as " medical devices " and require FDA

approval before being sold or used.

e.. Raw sprouts and other anti-cancer foods will be regulated as drugs.

f.. Bottled water that " treats " dehydration will be regulated as a drug.

g.. 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! " )

h.. Foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will disappear from

store shelves, pending FDA " review. "

i.. Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for " practicing

medicine without a license. "

" This could be potentially devastating, not just to my business but to any

business relating to supplements, " Sophy Winnick, a Felton, Calif., mother of

four who has been selling Youngevity products for 10 years, told the Santa Cruz

Sentinel. " People better get on the horn about this. "

The FDA's " draft guidance " on the issue first appeared in December, but federal

officials said it was printed in the Federal Register on Feb. 27, prompting the

growing storm of protest.

The FDA has reported that approximately one-third of all adult Americans have

reported participating in or using some form of " complementary and alternative

medicine " and officials estimate nutritional supplement sales total about $5

billion a year in America.

On the NewsTarget website, self-described " Health Ranger " Mike posted one

of the alerts.

" What this means to consumers, according to the proposal as outlined in FDA

Docket number 2006D-0480, is that things like vitamins and herbs would be

controlled by the FDA, and could possibly require prescriptions from a

naturopath, herbologist or some other physician, all of which would require you

to pay a health insurance company and contribute to the already back-breaking

cost of healthcare in America, " he wrote.

" There are those who do not trust the U.S. government to act in the interest of

its citizens over the interests of pharmaceutical companies and health insurance

providers, " he said. " Those people have good reason to feel this way, and the

amount of dangerous - DEADLY, even - pharmaceutical drugs that get recalled . is

testament to the fact that human beings can be used as guinea pigs because the

FDA allows the pharmaceutical industry to release drugs that haven't been

properly tested. "

As WND recently reported, Merck and Co. had been donating to state legislators

across the nation who in return were working to require young girls to be given

Merck's $400 vaccine that prevents a virus that is spread only through sexual

contact.

WND also has reported on the mandatory anthrax shots for members of the

military, even though they had not been fully tested, and the possibility that

government officials also could order civilians to be vaccinated.

" This [new] proposal would allow the FDA to control your access to

'alternatives' to the broken, profit-driven, corrupt pharmaceutical industry

here in the U.S., " wrote.

" When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game, " he said. " 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.

" 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, " he said.

" Under these proposed guidelines, FDA 'experts' (the same corrupt officials who

re-approved 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, " continued. " 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. "

" This is not a drill. It really is time to be alarmed, " he said. " 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. "

For example, he cited wording directly from the FDA plans: " .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 regiment., the vegetable juice would also be subject to

regulation as a drug. "

Keep in mind, he said, the FDA is the agency that " openly allows the mass

poisoning of the public with cancer-causing food additives such as sodium

nitrite. "

According to his website, suffered from degenerative disease, was nearly

obese and diabetic by 30. He became a student of nutrition and natural therapies

and gave up all pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter drugs, caffeine and pursued a

natural foods diet with exercise.

He lost 50 pounds, his diabetes symptoms vanished and his blood pressured

reached 105/60, so he began a writing and teaching career on his own

transformation.

An essay by Wicke at Rocky Mountain Hi Herbal noted, " The unstated purpose

of the FDA, and similar organizations in many other countries, is and always has

been the protection of major pharmaceutical company profits. Expensive testing

protocols act as a way to keep drugs and herbs within the control of the

international cartels. While such tests may make sense for newly synthesized

drugs with no track record in cultural tradition or popular usage, they are

inappropriate for herb and food products, especially those with a long history

of usage. "

The FDA, in its announcement, said the federal government has been investigating

and monitoring " complementary and alternative medicine " since 1992. It also said

" depending on the . therapy or practice, a product used . may be subject to

regulation. "

Secondly, it noted, the law does not exempt alternative medicine products from

regulation.

Alan Stang, writing on etherzone.com, was a little more blunt.

" Recently we wrote about the 72-year-old Florida grandmother whom the Food and

Drug Administration Nazis are charging with a couple of felonies and some

misdemeanors for helping cancer victims get the laetrile (Vitamin B-17) they

need, " he wrote. " Now here come these same offspring of unmarried female

canines, with a scheme that may outlaw dietary supplements. "

He said where such laws already have kicked in, Echinacea, which recharges the

immune system, used to cost $14 a bottle, but now is $153. " Because they work,

they have now become 'drugs,' " he said.

" Not content to dominate the drug trade and send your prescription drugs into

the $tratosphere, the Food & Drug Administration is now trying (yet again) to

take over the entire health food and nutritional supplement industry so they can

shut it down forever, leaving expensive FDA-approved drugs - with their myriad

side effects - as your only option for treating anything from Alzheimer's to

zits, " wrote Jim Rutz, in a WND column.

" The FDA hacks are pooh-poohing the significance of the new guidelines as

toothless suggestions that merely 'clarify' and 'change nothing.' Yeah, right.

In truth, they're following the classic procedure for passing outrageous laws

that wouldn't have a chance without an incremental, camel-nose-under-the-tent

approach, " he said.

" In reality, 2006D-0480 would eventually change everything, including your life

expectancy. The FDA realizes that alternative medicine has far, far more

solutions to chronic diseases than mainline medicine does ... and that panics

them. "

WND also has reported on an agreement by the FDA and the Federal Trade

Commission to a Trilateral ation Charter with counterparts in Canada and

Mexico under the auspices of NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership

of North America that will elevate the crackdown on public access to food

supplements and vitamins.

" The purpose is to make an end run around any domestic law that interferes with

food and drug multi-national corporate profits, " Hammell, a critic of the

plan, told WND.

Hammell is the founder of International Advocates for Health Freedom, an

advocacy group created to fight globalists' efforts to regulate alternative

health treatments, including herbs, dietary supplements, and vitamins.

" A key goal of the Trilateral ation Charter is to limit the public's

access to food supplements and vitamins that are fundamental to many types of

alternative medicine, " Hammell said. " The Trilateral ation Charter is

determined to attack the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 by

moving to merge our food and drug regulations with those of Canada and Mexico,

both of whom are far more restrictive on dietary supplements. "

He believes the agenda of the Trilateral ation Charter reflects a

globalist desire to advance the interests of the large pharmaceutical companies

by reining in the food supplements industry worldwide.

He points to efforts such as the Codex Alimentarius Commission that was created

in 1963 by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the World Health

Organization, both official groups within the United Nations.

" The Codex Alimentarius Commission claims that their main purpose is to protect

the health of consumers and ensure fair trade practices in the food trade

worldwide, " Hammell explained to WND. " But the truth is that the Codex

Alimentarius Commission is dominated by corporate multi-national interests that

do not have as their primary concern the health interests of the people they

claim they are in business to protect, not if that health interest is better

served by alternative food supplements and alternative medicine. They have a

business with disease - it's not in their best interests that people be

healthy. "

Comments can be submitted in writing to: Division of Dockets Management

(HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061, Rockville,

MD 20852.

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April 25, 2007

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1:43 AM

EOHarm

Subject: Feds eye control

of vitamins, supplements – even water!

This is getting really weird.

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Feds eye control of vitamins, supplements – even water!

FDA looks to regulate natural substances as drugs, with prescriptions

from doctors

Posted: April 24, 2007

9:30 p.m. Eastern

By Bob Unruh

FDA Commissioner von Echenbach

The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs

and other natural substances, including water when it is used

to " treat " dehydration, should be classified as drugs, and opponents

have only until April 30 to express their concern about the proposals

under Docket No. 2006D-0480.

The government agency under the direction of C. von

Eschenbach, who became commissioner in 2006, also has put

its " Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their

Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration " on a fast track for

implementation.

But parents' groups, natural remedy interests, food and herb

businesses and others are horrified. A group called Gentle Christian

Mothers alerted its constituency in no uncertain terms.

" Please Read!!! The FDA is trying to regulate all things that are

considered by them to be treatment for disease. They want to regulate

vitamins, herbs, alternative therapies (things like hot stone

therapy), even down to juices and holy water, " the warning said. " It

might mean having to go to a doctor or medical professional for

vitamins. "

(Story continues below)

The website noted that among likely developments if the FDA has its

way:

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. "

Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug.

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! " )

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. "

" This could be potentially devastating, not just to my business but

to any business relating to supplements, " Sophy Winnick, a Felton,

Calif., mother of four who has been selling Youngevity products for

10 years, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. " People better get on the

horn about this. "

The FDA's " draft guidance " on the issue first appeared in December,

but federal officials said it was printed in the Federal Register on

Feb. 27, prompting the growing storm of protest.

The FDA has reported that approximately one-third of all adult

Americans have reported participating in or using some form

of " complementary and alternative medicine " and officials estimate

nutritional supplement sales total about $5 billion a year in

America.

On the NewsTarget website, self-described " Health Ranger " Mike

posted one of the alerts.

" What this means to consumers, according to the proposal as outlined

in FDA Docket number 2006D-0480, is that things like vitamins and

herbs would be controlled by the FDA, and could possibly require

prescriptions from a naturopath, herbologist or some other physician,

all of which would require you to pay a health insurance company and

contribute to the already back-breaking cost of healthcare in

America, " he wrote.

" There are those who do not trust the U.S. government to act in the

interest of its citizens over the interests of pharmaceutical

companies and health insurance providers, " he said. " Those people

have good reason to feel this way, and the amount of dangerous –

DEADLY, even – pharmaceutical drugs that get recalled … is

testament

to the fact that human beings can be used as guinea pigs because the

FDA allows the pharmaceutical industry to release drugs that haven't

been properly tested. "

As WND recently reported, Merck and Co. had been donating to state

legislators across the nation who in return were working to require

young girls to be given Merck's $400 vaccine that prevents a virus

that is spread only through sexual contact.

WND also has reported on the mandatory anthrax shots for members of

the military, even though they had not been fully tested, and the

possibility that government officials also could order civilians to

be vaccinated.

" This [new] proposal would allow the FDA to control your access

to 'alternatives' to the broken, profit-driven, corrupt

pharmaceutical industry here in the U.S., "

wrote.

" When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game, " he

said. " 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.

" 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, "

he said.

" Under these proposed guidelines, FDA 'experts' (the same corrupt

officials who re-approved 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, " continued. " 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. "

" This is not a drill. It really is time to be alarmed, " he

said. " 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. "

For example, he cited wording directly from the FDA plans: " …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 regiment…, the

vegetable juice would also be subject to regulation as a drug. "

Keep in mind, he said, the FDA is the agency that " openly allows the

mass poisoning of the public with cancer-causing food additives such

as sodium nitrite. "

According to his website, suffered from

degenerative disease,

was nearly obese and diabetic by 30. He became a student of nutrition

and natural therapies and gave up all pharmaceuticals, over-the-

counter drugs, caffeine and pursued a natural foods diet with

exercise.

He lost 50 pounds, his diabetes symptoms vanished and his blood

pressured reached 105/60, so he began a writing and teaching career

on his own transformation.

An essay by Wicke at Rocky Mountain Hi Herbal noted, " The

unstated purpose of the FDA, and similar organizations in many other

countries, is and always has been the protection of major

pharmaceutical company profits. Expensive testing protocols act as a

way to keep drugs and herbs within the control of the international

cartels. While such tests may make sense for newly synthesized drugs

with no track record in cultural tradition or popular usage, they are

inappropriate for herb and food products, especially those with a

long history of usage. "

The FDA, in its announcement, said the federal government has been

investigating and monitoring " complementary and alternative medicine "

since 1992. It also said " depending on the … therapy or practice, a

product used … may be subject to regulation. "

Secondly, it noted, the law does not exempt alternative medicine

products from regulation.

Alan Stang, writing on etherzone.com, was a little more blunt.

" Recently we wrote about the 72-year-old Florida grandmother whom the

Food and Drug Administration Nazis are charging with a couple of

felonies and some misdemeanors for helping cancer victims get the

laetrile (Vitamin B-17) they need, " he wrote. " Now here come these

same offspring of unmarried female canines, with a scheme that may

outlaw dietary supplements… "

He said where such laws already have kicked in, Echinacea, which

recharges the immune system, used to cost $14 a bottle, but now is

$153. " Because they work, they have now become 'drugs,' " he said.

" Not content to dominate the drug trade and send your prescription

drugs into the $tratosphere, the Food & Drug Administration is now

trying (yet again) to take over the entire health food and

nutritional supplement industry so they can shut it down forever,

leaving expensive FDA-approved drugs – with their myriad side

effects – as your only option for treating anything from Alzheimer's

to zits, " wrote Jim Rutz, in a WND column.

" The FDA hacks are pooh-poohing the significance of the new

guidelines as toothless suggestions that merely 'clarify' and 'change

nothing.' Yeah, right. In truth, they're following the classic

procedure for passing outrageous laws that wouldn't have a chance

without an incremental, camel-nose-under-the-tent approach, " he said.

" In reality, 2006D-0480 would eventually change everything, including

your life expectancy. The FDA realizes that alternative medicine has

far, far more solutions to chronic diseases than mainline medicine

does ... and that panics them… "

WND also has reported on an agreement by the FDA and the Federal

Trade Commission to a Trilateral ation Charter with

counterparts in Canada and Mexico under

the auspices of NAFTA and the

Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America that will

elevate the crackdown on public access to food supplements and

vitamins.

" The purpose is to make an end run around any domestic law that

interferes with food and drug multi-national corporate profits, "

Hammell, a critic of the plan, told WND.

Hammell is the founder of International Advocates for Health Freedom,

an advocacy group created to fight globalists' efforts to regulate

alternative health treatments, including herbs, dietary supplements,

and vitamins.

" A key goal of the Trilateral ation Charter is to limit the

public's access to food supplements and vitamins that are fundamental

to many types of alternative medicine, " Hammell said. " The Trilateral

ation Charter is determined to attack the Dietary Supplement

Health and Education Act of 1994 by moving to merge our food and drug

regulations with those of Canada

and Mexico,

both of whom are far

more restrictive on dietary supplements. "

He believes the agenda of the Trilateral ation Charter reflects

a globalist desire to advance the interests of the large

pharmaceutical companies by reining in the food supplements industry

worldwide.

He points to efforts such as the Codex Alimentarius Commission that

was created in 1963 by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the

World Health Organization, both official groups within the United

Nations.

" The Codex Alimentarius Commission claims that their main purpose is

to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair trade practices in

the food trade worldwide, " Hammell explained to WND. " But the truth

is that the Codex Alimentarius Commission is dominated by corporate

multi-national interests that do not have as their primary concern

the health interests of the people they claim they are in business to

protect, not if that health interest is better served by alternative

food supplements and alternative medicine. They have a business with

disease – it's not in their best interests that people be healthy. "

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WorldNetDaily poll.

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April 25, 2007

My granny is going to cast a spell from heaven on these assholes. who the f & *k votes for them????? Or how do they get the position. It is time to over haulChap 'n Ali <chapnalli@...> wrote: Regulating Holy Water?? This will get my Grandma all up in

arms! - From: EOHarm [mailto:EOHarm ] On Behalf Of Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:43 AMEOHarm Subject: Feds eye control of vitamins, supplements – even water! This is getting really weird. FThis is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55370 Tuesday, April 24, 2007LIFE WITH BIG BROTHERFeds eye control of vitamins, supplements – even water!FDA looks to regulate natural substances as drugs, with prescriptions from doctorsPosted: April 24, 20079:30 p.m.

EasternBy Bob Unruh-© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com FDA Commissioner von Echenbach The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs and other natural substances, including water when it is used to "treat" dehydration, should be classified as drugs, and opponents have only until April 30 to express their concern about the proposals under Docket No. 2006D-0480. The government agency under the direction of C. von Eschenbach, who became commissioner in 2006, also has put its "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration" on a fast track for implementation. But parents' groups, natural remedy interests, food and herb businesses and others are horrified. A group called Gentle Christian Mothers alerted its constituency in no uncertain terms. "Please Read!!! The FDA is trying to regulate all things

that are considered by them to be treatment for disease. They want to regulate vitamins, herbs, alternative therapies (things like hot stone therapy), even down to juices and holy water," the warning said. "It might mean having to go to a doctor or medical professional for vitamins." (Story continues below) The website noted that among likely developments if the FDA has its way: 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." Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug. 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!") 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.""This could be potentially devastating, not just to my business but to any business relating to supplements," Sophy Winnick, a Felton, Calif., mother of four who has been selling Youngevity products for 10 years, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. "People better get on the horn about this." The FDA's "draft guidance" on the issue first appeared in December, but federal officials said it was printed in the Federal Register on Feb. 27, prompting the growing storm of protest. The FDA has reported that approximately one-third of all

adult Americans have reported participating in or using some form of "complementary and alternative medicine" and officials estimate nutritional supplement sales total about $5 billion a year in America. On the NewsTarget website, self-described "Health Ranger" Mike posted one of the alerts. "What this means to consumers, according to the proposal as outlined in FDA Docket number 2006D-0480, is that things like vitamins and herbs would be controlled by the FDA, and could possibly require prescriptions from a naturopath, herbologist or some other physician, all of which would require you to pay a health insurance company and contribute to the already back-breaking cost of healthcare in America," he wrote. "There are those who do not trust the U.S. government to act in the interest of its citizens over the interests of pharmaceutical companies and health insurance

providers," he said. "Those people have good reason to feel this way, and the amount of dangerous – DEADLY, even – pharmaceutical drugs that get recalled … is testament to the fact that human beings can be used as guinea pigs because the FDA allows the pharmaceutical industry to release drugs that haven't been properly tested." As WND recently reported, Merck and Co. had been donating to state legislators across the nation who in return were working to require young girls to be given Merck's $400 vaccine that prevents a virus that is spread only through sexual contact. WND also has reported on the mandatory anthrax shots for members of the military, even though they had not been fully tested, and the possibility that government officials also could order civilians to be vaccinated. "This [new] proposal would allow the FDA to control your access to 'alternatives' to the broken, profit-driven, corrupt

pharmaceutical industry here in the U.S.," wrote. "When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game," he said. "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. "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," he said. "Under these proposed guidelines, FDA 'experts' (the same corrupt officials who re-approved 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," continued. "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." "This is not a drill. It really is time to be alarmed," he said. "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." For example, he cited wording directly from the FDA plans: "…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 regiment…,

the vegetable juice would also be subject to regulation as a drug." Keep in mind, he said, the FDA is the agency that "openly allows the mass poisoning of the public with cancer-causing food additives such as sodium nitrite." According to his website, suffered from degenerative disease, was nearly obese and diabetic by 30. He became a student of nutrition and natural therapies and gave up all pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter drugs, caffeine and pursued a natural foods diet with exercise. He lost 50 pounds, his diabetes symptoms vanished and his blood pressured reached 105/60, so he began a writing and teaching career on his own transformation. An essay by Wicke at Rocky Mountain Hi Herbal noted, "The unstated purpose of the FDA, and similar organizations in many other countries, is and always has been the protection of major pharmaceutical company profits. Expensive

testing protocols act as a way to keep drugs and herbs within the control of the international cartels. While such tests may make sense for newly synthesized drugs with no track record in cultural tradition or popular usage, they are inappropriate for herb and food products, especially those with a long history of usage." The FDA, in its announcement, said the federal government has been investigating and monitoring "complementary and alternative medicine" since 1992. It also said "depending on the … therapy or practice, a product used … may be subject to regulation." Secondly, it noted, the law does not exempt alternative medicine products from regulation. Alan Stang, writing on etherzone.com, was a little more blunt. "Recently we wrote about the 72-year-old Florida grandmother whom the Food and Drug Administration Nazis are charging with a couple of felonies and some

misdemeanors for helping cancer victims get the laetrile (Vitamin B-17) they need," he wrote. "Now here come these same offspring of unmarried female canines, with a scheme that may outlaw dietary supplements…" He said where such laws already have kicked in, Echinacea, which recharges the immune system, used to cost $14 a bottle, but now is $153. "Because they work, they have now become 'drugs,'" he said. "Not content to dominate the drug trade and send your prescription drugs into the $tratosphere, the Food & Drug Administration is now trying (yet again) to take over the entire health food and nutritional supplement industry so they can shut it down forever, leaving expensive FDA-approved drugs – with their myriad side effects – as your only option for treating anything from Alzheimer's to zits," wrote Jim Rutz, in a WND column. "The FDA hacks are pooh-poohing the significance of the new

guidelines as toothless suggestions that merely 'clarify' and 'change nothing.' Yeah, right. In truth, they're following the classic procedure for passing outrageous laws that wouldn't have a chance without an incremental, camel-nose-under-the-tent approach," he said. "In reality, 2006D-0480 would eventually change everything, including your life expectancy. The FDA realizes that alternative medicine has far, far more solutions to chronic diseases than mainline medicine does ... and that panics them…" WND also has reported on an agreement by the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission to a Trilateral ation Charter with counterparts in Canada and Mexico under the auspices of NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America that will elevate the crackdown on public access to food supplements and vitamins. "The purpose is to make an end run around

any domestic law that interferes with food and drug multi-national corporate profits," Hammell, a critic of the plan, told WND. Hammell is the founder of International Advocates for Health Freedom, an advocacy group created to fight globalists' efforts to regulate alternative health treatments, including herbs, dietary supplements, and vitamins. "A key goal of the Trilateral ation Charter is to limit the public's access to food supplements and vitamins that are fundamental to many types of alternative medicine," Hammell said. "The Trilateral ation Charter is determined to attack the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 by moving to merge our food and drug regulations with those of Canada and Mexico, both of whom are far more restrictive on dietary supplements." He believes the agenda of the Trilateral ation Charter reflects a

globalist desire to advance the interests of the large pharmaceutical companies by reining in the food supplements industry worldwide. He points to efforts such as the Codex Alimentarius Commission that was created in 1963 by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the World Health Organization, both official groups within the United Nations. "The Codex Alimentarius Commission claims that their main purpose is to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair trade practices in the food trade worldwide," Hammell explained to WND. "But the truth is that the Codex Alimentarius Commission is dominated by corporate multi-national interests that do not have as their primary concern the health interests of the people they claim they are in business to protect, not if that health interest is better served by alternative food supplements and alternative medicine. They have a business with disease – it's not in

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Me too. My homeopath's office manager just gave me a bottle from Lourdes.RoxChap 'n Ali <chapnalli@...> wrote: Regulating Holy Water?? This will get my Grandma all up in arms! - From: EOHarm [mailto:EOHarm ] On Behalf Of Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:43 AM EOHarm Subject: Feds eye control of vitamins, supplements – even

water! This is getting really weird. F This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55370 Tuesday, April 24, 2007 LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER Feds eye control of vitamins, supplements – even water! FDA looks to regulate natural substances as drugs, with prescriptions from doctors Posted: April 24, 2007 9:30 p.m. Eastern By Bob Unruh -© 2007

WorldNetDaily.com FDA Commissioner von Echenbach The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs and other natural substances, including water when it is used to "treat" dehydration, should be classified as drugs, and opponents have only until April 30 to express their concern about the proposals under Docket No. 2006D-0480. The government agency under the direction of C. von Eschenbach, who became commissioner in 2006, also has put its "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration" on a fast track for implementation. But parents' groups, natural remedy interests, food and herb businesses and others are horrified. A group called Gentle Christian Mothers alerted its constituency in no uncertain terms. "Please Read!!! The FDA is trying to regulate all things that are

considered by them to be treatment for disease. They want to regulate vitamins, herbs, alternative therapies (things like hot stone therapy), even down to juices and holy water," the warning said. "It might mean having to go to a doctor or medical professional for vitamins." (Story continues below) The website noted that among likely developments if the FDA has its way: 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." Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug. 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!") 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." "This could be potentially devastating, not just to my business but to any business relating to supplements," Sophy Winnick, a Felton, Calif., mother of four who has been selling Youngevity products for 10 years, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. "People better get on the horn about this." The FDA's "draft guidance" on the issue first appeared in December, but federal officials said it was printed in the Federal Register on Feb. 27, prompting the growing storm of protest. The FDA has reported that

approximately one-third of all adult Americans have reported participating in or using some form of "complementary and alternative medicine" and officials estimate nutritional supplement sales total about $5 billion a year in America. On the NewsTarget website, self-described "Health Ranger" Mike posted one of the alerts. "What this means to consumers, according to the proposal as outlined in FDA Docket number 2006D-0480, is that things like vitamins and herbs would be controlled by the FDA, and could possibly require prescriptions from a naturopath, herbologist or some other physician, all of which would require you to pay a health insurance company and contribute to the already back-breaking cost of healthcare in America," he wrote. "There are those who do not trust the U.S. government to act in the interest of its citizens over the interests of

pharmaceutical companies and health insurance providers," he said. "Those people have good reason to feel this way, and the amount of dangerous – DEADLY, even – pharmaceutical drugs that get recalled … is testament to the fact that human beings can be used as guinea pigs because the FDA allows the pharmaceutical industry to release drugs that haven't been properly tested." As WND recently reported, Merck and Co. had been donating to state legislators across the nation who in return were working to require young girls to be given Merck's $400 vaccine that prevents a virus that is spread only through sexual contact. WND also has reported on the mandatory anthrax shots for members of the military, even though they had not been fully tested, and the possibility that government officials also could order civilians to be vaccinated. "This [new] proposal would allow the FDA to control your

access to 'alternatives' to the broken, profit-driven, corrupt pharmaceutical industry here in the U.S.," wrote. "When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game," he said. "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. "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," he said. "Under these proposed guidelines, FDA 'experts' (the same corrupt officials who re-approved 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," continued. "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." "This is not a drill. It really is time to be alarmed," he said. "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." For example, he cited wording directly from the FDA plans: "…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 regiment…, the vegetable juice would also be subject to regulation as a drug." Keep in mind, he said, the FDA is the agency that "openly allows the mass poisoning of the public with cancer-causing food additives such as sodium nitrite." According to his website, suffered from degenerative disease, was nearly obese and diabetic by 30. He became a student of nutrition and natural therapies and gave up all pharmaceuticals, over-the- counter drugs, caffeine and pursued a natural foods diet with exercise. He lost 50 pounds, his diabetes symptoms vanished and his blood pressured reached 105/60, so he began a writing and teaching career on his own transformation. An essay by Wicke at Rocky Mountain Hi Herbal noted, "The unstated purpose of the FDA, and similar organizations in many

other countries, is and always has been the protection of major pharmaceutical company profits. Expensive testing protocols act as a way to keep drugs and herbs within the control of the international cartels. While such tests may make sense for newly synthesized drugs with no track record in cultural tradition or popular usage, they are inappropriate for herb and food products, especially those with a long history of usage." The FDA, in its announcement, said the federal government has been investigating and monitoring "complementary and alternative medicine" since 1992. It also said "depending on the … therapy or practice, a product used … may be subject to regulation." Secondly, it noted, the law does not exempt alternative medicine products from regulation. Alan Stang, writing on etherzone.com, was a little more blunt. "Recently we wrote about the 72-year-old

Florida grandmother whom the Food and Drug Administration Nazis are charging with a couple of felonies and some misdemeanors for helping cancer victims get the laetrile (Vitamin B-17) they need," he wrote. "Now here come these same offspring of unmarried female canines, with a scheme that may outlaw dietary supplements…" He said where such laws already have kicked in, Echinacea, which recharges the immune system, used to cost $14 a bottle, but now is $153. "Because they work, they have now become 'drugs,'" he said. "Not content to dominate the drug trade and send your prescription drugs into the $tratosphere, the Food & Drug Administration is now trying (yet again) to take over the entire health food and nutritional supplement industry so they can shut it down forever, leaving expensive FDA-approved drugs – with their myriad side effects – as your only option for

treating anything from Alzheimer's to zits," wrote Jim Rutz, in a WND column. "The FDA hacks are pooh-poohing the significance of the new guidelines as toothless suggestions that merely 'clarify' and 'change nothing.' Yeah, right. In truth, they're following the classic procedure for passing outrageous laws that wouldn't have a chance without an incremental, camel-nose-under-the-tent approach," he said. "In reality, 2006D-0480 would eventually change everything, including your life expectancy. The FDA realizes that alternative medicine has far, far more solutions to chronic diseases than mainline medicine does ... and that panics them…" WND also has reported on an agreement by the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission to a Trilateral ation Charter with counterparts in Canada and Mexico under the auspices of NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity

Partnership of North America that will elevate the crackdown on public access to food supplements and vitamins. "The purpose is to make an end run around any domestic law that interferes with food and drug multi-national corporate profits," Hammell, a critic of the plan, told WND. Hammell is the founder of International Advocates for Health Freedom, an advocacy group created to fight globalists' efforts to regulate alternative health treatments, including herbs, dietary supplements, and vitamins. "A key goal of the Trilateral ation Charter is to limit the public's access to food supplements and vitamins that are fundamental to many types of alternative medicine," Hammell said. "The Trilateral ation Charter is determined to attack the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 by moving to merge our food and drug regulations with those of Canada and

Mexico, both of whom are far more restrictive on dietary supplements." He believes the agenda of the Trilateral ation Charter reflects a globalist desire to advance the interests of the large pharmaceutical companies by reining in the food supplements industry worldwide. He points to efforts such as the Codex Alimentarius Commission that was created in 1963 by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the World Health Organization, both official groups within the United Nations. "The Codex Alimentarius Commission claims that their main purpose is to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair trade practices in the food trade worldwide," Hammell explained to WND. "But the truth is that the Codex Alimentarius Commission is dominated by corporate multi-national interests that do not have as their primary concern the health interests of the people

they claim they are in business to protect, not if that health interest is better served by alternative food supplements and alternative medicine. They have a business with disease – it's not in their best interests that people be healthy." If you'd like to sound off on this issue, please take part in the WorldNetDaily poll. ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Are you a representative of the media who would like to interview the author of this story? Let us know. ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Special offers: SCARY MEDICINE: Exposing the dark side of vaccines 'Vaccines: the risks, the benefits, the choices': Must-see DVD for parents on the fence about whether to vaccinate Reclaim your health!

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I am truly starting to understand why people form cults and militias

and hide away at camps and armed fortresses....

Can schizophrenia pop up in a 31 y/o???

Is it paranoia is its true?

> Regulating Holy Water?? This will get my Grandma all

up in arms! -

>

April 25, 2007

Appointed by Bush most likely. You

know another corrupt, inefficient, incompetent, ignorant placement by our

leader.

This all sounds a little hokey to me

though. How in the world is the FDA going to have the time or the man

power to regulate all food related products in this manner? How would

they explain your having to get a prescription for a vitamin like fish oil but

allowed to sell Tylenol over the counter? I don’t see how any of

this can fly.

-

From: EOHarm [mailto:EOHarm ] On Behalf Of nancie f

Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007

1:44 PM

EOHarm

Subject: RE: Feds eye

control of vitamins, supplements - even water!

My granny is going to cast a spell from heaven on these assholes.

who the f & *k votes for them????? Or how do they get the position.

It is time to over haul

Chap 'n Ali

<chapnalliverizon (DOT) net> wrote:

Regulating Holy Water?? This will

get my Grandma all up in arms! -

From: EOHarm [mailto:EOHarm ] On Behalf Of

Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007

1:43 AM

EOHarm

Subject: Feds eye control

of vitamins, supplements – even water!

This is getting really weird.

F

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER

Feds eye control of vitamins, supplements – even water!

FDA looks to regulate natural substances as drugs, with prescriptions

from doctors

Posted: April 24, 2007

9:30 p.m. Eastern

By Bob Unruh

FDA Commissioner von Echenbach

The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs

and other natural substances, including water when it is used

to " treat " dehydration, should be classified as drugs, and opponents

have only until April 30 to express their concern about the proposals

under Docket No. 2006D-0480.

The government agency under the direction of C. von

Eschenbach, who became commissioner in 2006, also has put

its " Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their

Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration " on a fast track for

implementation.

But parents' groups, natural remedy interests, food and herb

businesses and others are horrified. A group called Gentle Christian

Mothers alerted its constituency in no uncertain terms.

" Please Read!!! The FDA is trying to regulate all things that are

considered by them to be treatment for disease. They want to regulate

vitamins, herbs, alternative therapies (things like hot stone

therapy), even down to juices and holy water, " the warning said. " It

might mean having to go to a doctor or medical professional for

vitamins. "

(Story continues below)

The website noted that among likely developments if the FDA has its

way:

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. "

Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug.

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! " )

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. "

" This could be potentially devastating, not just to my business but

to any business relating to supplements, " Sophy Winnick, a Felton,

Calif., mother of four who has been selling Youngevity products for

10 years, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. " People better get on the

horn about this. "

The FDA's " draft guidance " on the issue first appeared in December,

but federal officials said it was printed in the Federal Register on

Feb. 27, prompting the growing storm of protest.

The FDA has reported that approximately one-third of all adult

Americans have reported participating in or using some form

of " complementary and alternative medicine " and officials estimate

nutritional supplement sales total about $5 billion a year in

America.

On the NewsTarget website, self-described " Health Ranger " Mike

posted one of the alerts.

" What this means to consumers, according to the proposal as outlined

in FDA Docket number 2006D-0480, is that things like vitamins and

herbs would be controlled by the FDA, and could possibly require

prescriptions from a naturopath, herbologist or some other physician,

all of which would require you to pay a health insurance company and

contribute to the already back-breaking cost of healthcare in

America, " he wrote.

" There are those who do not trust the U.S. government to act

in the