Every few years the FDA makes a new attempt to shut down, or to limit your access to homeopathic medicines. The reasons they do this is because the alternative medicine sector is a headache for them and their best friends, the large pharmaceutical companies and they get paid over half a billion dollars in revenue…
Tag: FDA
New FDA commissioner approved – what it means to health foods
Dr. Scott Gottlieb FDA Commissioner (source of Photo CNN) The Senate just confirmed the approval this week of the newest FDA commissioner – Dr. Scott Gottlieb – a 44-year-old physician. Many Senators and Congressmen voiced their concern that Dr. Gottlieb has extensive ties to the pharmaceutical industry. In advance of confirmation, Gottlieb expressed his…
Feds budgeting to lobby consumers to accept GMO foods
What better way to spread propaganda than to have it paid for with your tax dollars. The Federal Government through your (or Monsanto’s) House of Representatives is currently putting together a spending bill for the new Fiscal Year (September 2016-17) that includes over $3 million for consumer education and outreach to “promote understanding and acceptance…
Who is really in charge of your FDA?
The agency that is in charge of regulating your foods and drugs, has its top positions filled by people that were employed or earned a significant portion of their income from the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. It is no secret why this agency has been biased against the natural foods industry and supportive of their…
Nominee for New FDA Commissioner tied to Big Pharma
If you have ever wondered why the FDA favors Big Pharma and is constantly attacking the health food industry, perhaps it is because the people that are in charge of the FDA have had close ties and have earned a lot of $$ from the pharmaceutical industry. Most recently — Dr. Robert Califf was nominated…
Hippocrates, 40,393 annual drug deaths, and 0 supplement deaths
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – so said Hippocrates (Father of Western Medicine). Perhaps if we took the food advice of Hippocrates, 40,393 people who died from drugs in 2010 would still be alive. Actually the JAMA reported over 105,000 deaths to adverse reactions to prescription drugs in 2012. The…
FDA is attempting to limit access to compounded medicines
The FDA is trying to take away the ability of Naturopathic Doctors to write prescriptions for use of compounded medicines in their offices and in interstate commerce. Compounding medications have been around for a long time and have been proven to be very safe and effective. However, since this is a viable alternative to pharmaceutical…
Please send your comments to FDA to keep all your health care choices available
Your last chance to submit comments to the FDA over your experiences with homeopathic medicines closes on June 22. Prior to writing new (more restrictive) regulations about homeopathics which already fall under FDA jurisdiction and regulation, the FDA is seeking the following information: Consumer attitudes about homeopathy Whether or not consumers have enough information to…
FDA is planning to take away your homeopathic medicines and what you can do
The FDA is trying to eliminate your access to homeopathic medicine. During the last 20 years the FDA has made several attempts to eliminate the Natural Foods Industry by creating new laws that would have effectively regulated health foods and supplements out of existence. They do this on a regular basis because they are controlled…
Dear Seagate — Is it a supplement or a food?
A customer named Kevin H. submitted the following question to us last month which turns out to be an ongoing headache we have with our friends from the FDA: Dear Seagate — “Hello, I’m interested in using you Marine Protein; however, I first need to verify that the product is labeled as a food instead…