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Armed agents invade Maxam Nutraceutics and steal natural health products

in shocking FDA raid

_http://www.naturalnews.com/032203_Maxam_Nutraceutics_FDA_raid.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/032203_Maxam_Nutraceutics_FDA_raid.html)

(NaturalNews) Amidst all the destructive activities taking place in our

world today that deserve attention, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

has decided instead to make it a personal mission to destroy the

businesses and livelihoods of those trying to help people through natural

medicine.

On Thursday, April 14, 2011, dozens of agents from the FDA, the Internal

Revenue Service (IRS), and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

conducted an unprovoked, full-scale raid on Hood River, Ore.-based Maxam

Nutraceutics, a company that produces and sells nutritional supplements

primarily

for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and Alzheimer's disease.

Back in October 12, 2010, _the FDA_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/the_FDA.html) sent a warning letter to Jim Cole,

Founder and CEO of Maxam, notifying

him that several of his company's _products_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/products.html) were not labeled in accordance with

the US Food, Drug and

Cosmetic Act. The letter also stated that Maxam had fifteen days from the

receipt of the letter to notify the _FDA_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/FDA.html)

compliance officer of the specific steps it planned to take in order to

correct the violations.

You can view a copy of the FDA warning letter here, complete with the name

of the FDA compliance officer to whom Jim and his company were instructed

to respond, and the FDA district director who sent the letter:

_http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/ucm229184.htm_

(http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/ucm229184.htm)

Oddly enough, the vast majority of the **unapproved _labels_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/labels.html) ** in question were not actually

labels at all.

They were merely customer testimonials about the products that had been

accumulated over the years from satisfied customers, and posted online

alongside product descriptions on Maxam's _website_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/website.html) . Nevertheless, the FDA considered

the testimonials to be

marketing violations that automatically rendered the products as drugs.

According to Jim, his company immediately responded to the FDA letter by

calling the compliance officer and telling her **it was [the company's]

intention to come into full compliance as quickly as possible.** This included

removing all the offending testimonials from the company website after

being told by the FDA compliance officer that they were not permitted.

**I contacted a patent and copyright attorney, and he had written [the

compliance officer] a letter that it was our intention to come into full

compliance,** said Jim, noting that his company responded within two days of

receiving the FDA warning letter, long before the 15-day deadline period. **So

we took down the testimonials, and we thought that was good. And I hired

an FDA copyright person [who] went over all the offending verbiage through

the website.**

Jim cooperated with every demand that the FDA made of him, and was

convinced that all was well. But apparently the FDA had different ideas when

out

of nowhere, the agency, along with the _IRS_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/IRS.html) and the FBI, sent as many as 80 armed,

SWAT-style agents to both

Maxam headquarters, the company's **Big Gym** _training_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/training.html) center, and even Jim's daughter's

house, to

confiscate all the products, company documents, and even personal files and

computers.

**They took all our products, all our paperwork, all our files -- we've

been doing this since 1992 and they pulled everything,** said Jim. **They

brought in three big moving vans, they had their guns on, their bullet-proof

vests -- they came prepared for war.**

The armed agents also stole 27 TurboSonic machines, which is a

sound-actuated vibration plate device that Jim invented to stimulate growth

plates in

the _body_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/body.html) , improve circulation,

energize the lymphatic system, and improve muscle strength. The TurboSonic

machines were not even mentioned in the FDA warning letter.

**We also have a big Olympic training center up here called the *Big Gym*

-- they went into the gym, they took all the paperwork, all the computer,

hard drives, downloaded all of our servers, and trashed a couple of our

servers going out,** added Jim. **They took products that were not on the list.

I had an old bodybuilding line that went back to 1992, they took all of

that. They pretty much just had a free-for-all.**

According to Jim, the agents stole **hundreds of thousands of dollars in

products** as part of the _raid_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/raid.html) , as

well as personal files, insurance policies, non-printed checks, and even

unopened packages of manila filing folders from an office supply store.

Clearly, the FDA's intent was to terrorize and intimidate this small company

that, from all available accounts, did absolutely nothing wrong.

Maxam is currently **waiting for the dust to settle** as it pursues legal

action against the offending agencies. Until then, the world must know

about this terrible injustice and crime against humanity. The FDA has clearly

shown itself to be a terrorist organization that has no respect for the rule

of law, or for common decency. To perform a SWAT-style raid against a

company that was doing everything it could to follow the law and conduct

_business_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/business.html) honestly and legally is a

travesty in this supposed **land of the free.**