FDA Classifying Vitamins, Herbs and Juices as Drugs

Bye, bye health freedom. 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 Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. 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 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 destroynatural 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.)
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 diagnosied 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.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.

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 manufacurer 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 taking money from the
same companies impacted by their votes.

- 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, allowing perfume and lotion
companies to continue poisoning the public with cancer-causing chemicals
that don't even have to be listed on the label, nor proven safe.

- Ordered the destruction of recipe books that
mentioned stevia. (A campaign to keep the public ignorant of the herb.)

- Does everything in its power to protect drug company
profits, including discrediting herbs, supplements and alternative medicine.

Does anyone honestly believe that this criminal organization has any capacity
whatsoever to act in the public interest? Even many Senators are fed up with the
FDA's unprecedented level of corruption and criminal behavior.

Action items, continued...

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.

Medical wasteland USA

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.

Why do Americans tolerate terrorism in their own government?

It is time we put a stop to this home-grown tyranny. We have fought too hard for
freedom in the United States to allow us all to be steamrolled by a criminal
front group covertly working for Big Pharma. 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. It's time to stop this terrorist
organization from destroying the lives of yet more U.S. citizens.

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
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.

And stay tuned to NewsTarget for more news, analysis and action alerts on health
freedom. Even though we're under constant attack by criminal organizations
trying to disrupt our servers and take us off line, we're still here, beating
the drum for health freedom, and hoping that we have enough sane-minded
Americans remaining to save this country from its government.

Actual FDA quote is Gobbledygook

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