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FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies
(NewsTarget) 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." (http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/%7Elrd/fr07625a.html)
This FDA rule will directly raise the price of dietary supplements for all consumers. The FDA acknowledges this and says "We expect that the majority of these costs will be borne by consumers of dietary supplements, who will likely respond to the increase in prices by reducing consumption." Thus, the FDA is intentionally seeking to shrink the size of the dietary supplement industry and reduce the influence of safe and effective options to improve the dreadful trend in the health of Americans. The goal is to leave toxic drugs as the primary health option.
Independent analysis of this FDA rule has placed cost of compliance at 10 fold what the FDA estimates with as many as 50% of small companies unable to comply.
The gutless cowards of Congress, a majority of whom are on the Big Pharma payroll or will be on it once they leave Congress, have delegated their lawmaking powers granted by the U.S. Constitution to a bunch of Big Pharma-friendly unelected bureaucrats at the FDA, who are in turn using this power to undermine free commerce and help Big Pharma eliminate competition from the market. This is the behavior of a government in tyranny, inviting a revolution by the people. It is noteworthy that fascist governments of the past have eliminated health freedom and health options as a necessary condition to enslave and brainwash a population (http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=2108&print_vi...) . Congress has delegated its responsibility to the people to such an extent that over half the laws in this country are now concocted by unelected bureaucrats with vested interests.
A Vehicle for Unprecedented Harassment
Any company that can afford to comply with the costs and regulations of this new FDA rule can be targeted and eliminated at will by the FDA. In essence, the FDA is seeking to make the dietary supplement industry document every phase of production, including expensive testing at multiple points in the production process. Massive record keeping will be required, including all customer complaints and returns for any reason! This is utterly draconian and an unnecessary interference and burden to free commerce. It is completely Anti-American.
No doubt, the FDA will impose user fees as an additional charge so that FDA agents will have the funding required to enforce the regulations. Under the new rule any flaw in bookkeeping can result in a company's products being declared adulterated, allowing the FDA to remove them from the market even though nothing is wrong with them! A company can then be forced out of business because they won't be able to sell any products to raise the money to comply. The rules are so complex and vague that the FDA can selectively target any company it chooses, even those attempting to comply in good faith.
The FDA is doing this under the pretense of improved consumer safety. Consumer safety could readily be guaranteed by simply having all companies test their final products for purity and potency. Instead of this simple approach the FDA has gone to the extreme of burdening the dietary supplement industry with regulations in excess of the drug industry. Supplements are foods, not drugs. The food industry couldn't begin to comply with these FDA rules, even though food contamination is far more dangerous to health than dietary supplements.
The FDA intends to phase this rule in over the next three years. This means that within five years half the industry and many of the health options individuals rely on will either be gone or significantly more expensive.
Even more chilling is that forces within the dietary supplement industry itself are in no small part responsible for this FDA final rule.
Trade Groups and their Big Companies Turn on America
The Natural Products Association (formerly the National Nutritional Food Association – NNFA) and the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have been instrumental in forcing these drug-like rules on dietary supplements. These globalist organizations are selling out America, destroying American jobs, undermining the U.S. Constitution, and working in conjunction with pharmaceutical companies to usher in Codex and the New World Order. Consumers of dietary supplements should learn who these companies are before buying their products and helping to inadvertently fund the destruction of health freedom in this country.
When DSHEA was passed in 1994 part of that law required the FDA to establish current good manufacturing practices (CGMPs) for the dietary supplement industry. During a period of FDA outreach to the industry the FDA was surprised to learn that CRN and NPA were in favor of drug-like CGMPs for the dietary supplement industry. These trade groups, working closely with Senators Orin Hatch (R-UT) and Tom Harkin (D-IA), have intentionally taken the supplement industry down a slippery slope. It is noteworthy that Hatch takes in more money from Big Pharma than he does from dietary supplement companies. Not only is Hatch a big supporter of the Medicare Part D drug rip off of Americans he has saved Big Pharma billions by protecting them from generic competition, as he is currently attempting to do with his legislation
The CRN has been taken over by multinational drug and food companies. Key players are the nutritional divisions of Bayer, BASF, Cargill, Monsanto, Wyeth, and Archer Daniels Midland (http://www.crnusa.org/who_omc.html). Nutrition companies that participate are in most cases owned by pharmaceutical companies, heavily invested in pharmaceutical companies, or jockeying for position in the international market as part of the New World Order. Key names include M****tech, Shacklee, Herbalife, GNLD International, The Vitamin Shoppe, and GNC. These companies are glad to eliminate competition from small companies and start up ventures.
Carrying on the general theme of Big Pharma ownership and a globalist agenda are the companies that control the NPA. One need only look at the new NPA China board to understand who these key players are (http://www.naturalproductsassoc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_China) . Jarrow Formulas, Now Foods, GNC, and Herbalife top the list. At the end of 2006 Jarrow and Now helped lead the charge with Senators Hatch and Harkin to burden the dietary supplement industry with bizarre Adverse Event Reporting legislation (AER) which insisted that dietary supplement companies keep extensive records on any type of consumer complaint. Aspects of this AER law are now implemented in the FDA final rule on CGMPs. Of course, NPA was quick to offer expensive training to its members to indoctrinate them into how to comply with the rules that NPA, working on behalf of the FDA, just forced on its own members. Are their member companies really this stupid? Or are they all working together? I would recommend that any NPA member that believes itself to be a true American company that values our constitution immediately withdraw from NPA membership – consumers will be looking to see who you are (http://www.naturalproductsassoc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_Board) .
The picture is now crystal clear for any person who cares to look. Numerous dietary supplement companies are anti-American and actively selling out our country and our constitution, working hand-in-glove with the FDA and Big Pharma. The majority of such companies can be found as members of CRN and NPA. It will be up to the American consumer to save the dietary industry from itself and preserve their own access to safe and effective natural health remedies. This is a relatively simple task. Quit buying products from or quit being a distributor in these fascist organizations. Support the small companies that are the backbone of America, otherwise they will soon be extinct.
Update on S.1082 Threat to Dietary Supplements
Many of you have been following the extreme threat to dietary supplements posed by S.1082 (http://www.wellnessresources.com/health_freedom.php) . Similar legislation has now cleared the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is headed for the floor of the House in the next week or two. The House version of this bill now contains the "food and food ingredients" language that the FDA can use to apply drug-related risk/benefit analysis to dietary supplements and have them removed from the market at their whim.
It is noteworthy that both CRN and NPA have posted on their websites information stating that S.1082 is not a threat to dietary supplements. Both organizations are flat out wrong. They cite a colloquy by Hatch, Harkin, Kennedy, and Enzi as their evidence. This colloquy was a direct result of our grassroots campaign to alert the American consumer to this major threat. In no way does this colloquy protect dietary supplements. Until the language in the bill is changed the threat exists and is very real. CRN and NPA also tell their members that the Codex initiative to scare consumers into thinking that dietary supplements are unsafe above minuscule amounts and need to be regulated by international laws is also no big deal. It is clear that CRN and NPA, again working hand-in-glove with the FDA, are a major part of the problem and are actively engaged in forwarding the globalist agenda of the New World Order. While pretending to represent the dietary supplement industry these organizations are in fact shooting the industry in the back and undermining health options for Americans.
The FDA is Out of Control
The FDA is a tyrannical organization that is now emboldened and completely out of control. It is not surprising that the FDA is seeking to eliminate competition to Big Pharma, they have been doing that for much of the past century. What is surprising is that they are openly stating in their final rule a plan that directly eliminates small businesses from existence. This fascist organization believes itself to be above the rule of law and is actively working against America and the rights of Americans (http://www.emord.com/events/speeches/fda_violation.htm) . It must be stopped. for new biologic drugs. Hatch also has a son working for NPA and another son that lobbies for NPA and the dietary supplement industry. When Hatch leaves the Senate he will be first in line for a six or seven figure Big Pharma salary.
About the author
Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources (www.wellnessresources.com), is a Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist, a charter professional member of the International and American Associations of Clinical Nutritionists (IAACN) since 1991. He is a nationally-renowned health expert, radio personality, and educator. He is the creator and pioneer of The Leptin Diet® and has been a featured expert consultant on Fox News Live, CBS Infinity television (national syndication), and The Wall Street Journal. Richards has appeared on hundreds of radio programs throughout the country. He is the author of Mastering Leptin (www.wellnessresources.com/products/mastering_leptin.php), The Leptin Diet (www.wellnessresources.com/Books/leptin_diet.php), and Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America(www.wellnessresources.com/Books/fight_for_your_health.php).
Richards encourages individuals to take charge of their health, stand up for their health rights, and not blindly succumb to propaganda from the vested-interests who profit from keeping Americans sick. As founder of Wellness Resources, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN, an independently-owned nutraceutical-quality dietary supplement company since 1985. He has personally developed 75 effective nutritional formulations. (www.wellnessresources.com)
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,087,361There's no news like old news that's just turned into new news.!!
Good post DQ, even if we knew this already....as it were!!
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,087,384Yes we did know it, or at least I presume that many of us did, and I had even ran articles about it on my website (www.tbyil.com) and in my forums months ago. But this new article by noted health authority Byron Richards really puts in perspective and I think that it is something that we should not just harumph and tut tut about for a few days and then let it slide back into the bushes til it rears it's ugly head and takes one huge bite out of our posteriors! That is how we are losing our health and other freedoms. We get exercised for the short term, perhaps even achieve a few victorious delays and such. But the other side never sleeps and they just keep grinding away on every front imaginable.
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This is a reply to # 1,087,405Just as I was about to type out a quick (yes, quick!) reply in agreeing with Chris, I saw your reply that suggests a different interpretation. So now I have to type out the whole idea just to be clear ;).... I keep wanting to post quick, smashNgrab drive-by posts, honestly I do, but the people won't let me LOL!
Many of the genuine Vitamin/Supplement/Herb companies were eliminated quite some time ago. Perhaps not all of them, but I suspect most of them. Why else would the establishment have done an about face on what once was their educated philosophy on all vitamins/supplement at large: "the notion that vitamin supplements, such as Vitamin C, will improve a person's health is absurd... as we've always claimed, any and all people can and should get all the nutrition necessary for good health from their food supply by eating "a balanced diet", and thereby save themselves teh expense of vitamins that do nothing more that produce costly urine". That was then, before they had the old industry in large part substituted by new players seeming to play the same part as the old, honest players. This front has been in place for well over a decade now, and has served it's purpose well.
Between J.R. Christopher and Richard Schulze , they both spoke of seeing, as far back as 1980, prominent Vitamin factories lined with drum after drum of their "raw products" - like coal tar, petroleum-based by products, various types of animal products / animal parts / animal by products / fecal matter, and rocks, of course, don't forget lots of rocks "minerals", and metal too, filling out the recipes of supplement factories in existance over twenty years ago.
This said, one must consider, what/which Vitamin industry is the FDA now claiming that it has set it's sights on? My impression is, the FDA has been dangling the Vitamin/Mineral/Herb/Supplement industry upside down by it's ankles for many years. A lot of the former, genuine, honest companies folded. No doubt there are still some who've managed to hold out and stay in business, and maybe this is what the old news as new news is about; uncle sam by way of the FDA now intends to give a good shaking to the industry it's been handing upside down all these years....just to see what else might fall out on the floor, shake loose, dislodge, and be swept into a trash heap. I get the impression that the intermediaries that have been content to front for the FDA these past few decades - our industrial supplements providers who've been remarketing other industry's waste products, have perhaps outlived their usefulness and are soon to be made extinct as well. Gee, I can't wait until the day when I must get a note from a doctor in order to take to the pharmacy to get my daily allowance of carrots or spinach or ginger... they will allow us ginger, won't they?.
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Chris!!!!!!!!! It's wonderful to see you back!!!!!!!!!!! Been thinking a lot about you. Hope all is well.... Or as well as could be.
Hugs,
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Thank you Luella,
there have been only two people in my life who had by far the most influence in shaping me into what I am today, and who also had a profound effect on my thinking and behavior; two mentors who were just stupendous human beings, and who were saturated with stalwart principles and integrity: qualities that are very hard to find in this day and age.
One saved my life, and the other was a source of moral strength.
I miss them both, more than words can say.
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This is a reply to # 1,087,587Welcome back, my friend. CureZone is a brighter place when your presence graces us.
Inadequate as the words of someone oceans removed from your loss may be at such a time, I would nevertheless like to tell you to not dwell in despair over the loss of someone near and dear, but rather rejoice and cherish their life and all of the time you shared together.
When you think of someone close to you who has passed on, through the tears of loss also find tears of joy and celebrate their life instead of merely mourning their death. If you do so, then they will always be there in your heart every step of the way for the rest of the journey called your life - and that journey is one you surely must know they want to be a long and wonderful one.
With love, my friend,
Tony (DQ)
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This is a reply to # 1,087,890Thank you for those wise words DQ.
The clergy stated at my fathers funeral, that it was to be a celebration of his life: which indeed it did turn out to be. I was grateful for his contribution.
However, the old saying that it is not the person who has passed on, so much as those who are left behind who suffer the most.
How true that is.
I shall overcome my melancholy in time, I am sure.
chris
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Bless your heart Chris, I know what you mean.
What can I say to comfort you, other than I have been there and done that? I will share with you something that I have learned though..... And you will find out.... Death does not break the bonds of love. And although you are separated from your loved one, you will find yourself doing something that relates to them in some way, and that bond of love will become very apparent.
Welcome back.
Hugs,
Luella
ps. I like your new picture!
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Sigh! Okay.... What's the solution? There is one, even if it's underground supplements.
Hugs,
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This is a reply to # 1,087,426My solution is to keep shouting from the rooftops, hitting people over the head with the truth, and if need be kicking them in the arse so their heads pop up out of the sand and hope that enough others do the same so that some day we look at what has been happening to us and we take back our health and our country.
The government is supposed to serve us, not enslave us - and they have no right whatsoever to tell us what to do with our bodies and our health. Our forefathers knew what to do when their unalienable rights granted by the Creator to all mean were abused. They wrote it down very plainly in The Declaration of Independence,
When any country's government fails to serve the rights and freedoms of the many and instead sacrifices those rights so that an elite few may prosper, it is time to change that country's government or replace it all together.
It is my fervent prayer that we wake up in time to change our government. The more controlling and out of control it becomes, and the FDA is a perfect example, the more I fear that we may end up having to replace it altogether - and that may not be a pretty process.
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This is a reply to # 1,087,444This is a subject that has bothered me quite a bit. There is something that a Congressman from Texas, Ron Paul, is proposing. It is bill H.R. 2117: Health Freedom Protection Act. Here is the link to the "Text of Legislation" and while on this page you can go to "Go to Bill Status Page"
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-2117
What EVERYONE needs to do is to call their congressmen and STRONGLY URGE them to vote "YES" on this bill. I call my two congressmen every other day, I have my parents call, my neighbors and friends. If enough people scream about this and make some noise only then will we be listened to.
Here is the link to contact your congressmen. Just put your geographic information in and the phone numbers for your local congress & senate information will show up.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Again, please urge everyone you know to call and be heard. I have also faxed my feelings to their offices. By the way, they have a local office and a Washington D.C. office. CALL THEM BOTH! FAX THEM BOTH!
Lastly, everyone has their own thoughts, feelings and ideas, but just a closing note. Ron Paul is the only candidate running for President that actually is on the side of the American citizen and not big business/corporations. We are no longer the free country most people think we are. Actually, quite the contrary!
Whatever your politics are aside, please get the word out about H.R. 2117: HEALTH FREEDOM PROTECTION ACT.
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