Hi folks,
Just got this tonight in my e-mail. Immediately below is the docket no. of the bill, and you can comment up to April 30th on the FDA website. Please do!-- it makes a difference. Below that is the News Target article outlining this latest assault on all things non-allopathic, which is part and parcel of the plan to put Codex in place.


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Docket Management Comment Form
Docket: 2006D-0480 - Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary
and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food
and Drug Administration
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NewsTarget.com [www.newstarg] et.com/021789. html

Originally published April 11 2007
Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"
by Mike Adams

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 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 Draft Guidance for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.

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 destroy natural 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.)

Click here for the direct link to the FDA's comment posting page for this docket.

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.

I've documented much of the criminal history of the FDA in my recent book, Natural Health Solutions and the
Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them, which suddenly seems even more relevant today than when I
wrote it. In that book, I documented the FDA ordered book burnings, the raids on vitamin shops, the
kidnapping of natural health practitioners, the threats, intimidation and oppression tactics that have
been used to suppress natural medicine for nearly a hundred years now. 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. Click here for the PDF version.

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
as 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 by clicking here. 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

Sharrhan:


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