Dis-info.
There is virtually NOTHING in that article that is the least bit true.
The problem that the FTC and FDA had with "Seasilver" was a mislabeling
issue.
They are, in fact, enforcing their "decision". It only applies to
labeling and "claims"... not silver products.
"The FTC has charged the two companies, their owners, the principal
distributor, and a purported "expert" with making false and The FTC has
charged the two companies, their owners, the principal distributor, and a
purported "expert" with making false and unsubstantiated claims about the
health benefits and safety of a product they market called
"Seasilver" claims about the health benefits and safety of a product they
market called "Seasilver" "
If I recall, Seasilver had virtually no, if any, silver in it. In FTC
terms: False labeling.
In FDA terms, false and unsubstantiated amount to the same
thing....unproven to their satisfaction which requires triple blind
testing. "NOT proven safe and effective" does not mean "proven unsafe and
ineffective"..and no "drug" claims, no proof of ANYTHING needed
[Docket No. 96N-0144]
Over-the-Counter ***Drug*** Products Containing Colloidal Silver
Ingredients or Silver Salts
"Drug" defined as anything *claimed* to cure or treat a disease. [No
claim? = not a drug ]
These are the rules of the "blind eye" which "Seasilver" violated.
Silver is NOT a heavy metal, it's a noble metal.
Only damaged nerve tissue has an affinity for silver..and copper as
well. It doesn't "do" the damage, it locates it.
Copper, on the other hand, CAN do nerve damage in living people if the
metals regulation system is out of whack.
The same system regulates silver elimination rates...so, if you are
having nerve damage while taking silver products, it's not the silver
that's doing the damage, it's copper and stopping the silver intake won't
stop the damage.
Copper is so prevalent in the environment, it's very difficult to avoid.
Adding silver on top of a copper overload due to a deficiency in Selenium
may aggravate the copper retention problem, but it's not "silver" that's
"the" culprit.
See "Copper toxicity "
See cupro-silver tissue staining for nerve damage forensics...on dead
people...cadavers.
Following the links form the old Rosemary Jacobs site [the blue lady] to
research on Agyria [and actually "reading" the papers ] , The overall
conclusion was that none of the researchers could induce enough cases of
Agyria, even using thousands of PPM of any silver compound to even study
it. One went to the silver worker industries records in desperation and
found the incidence to be 2 in one thousand workers ever developed any
trace of Agyria in the entire industries recorded history..and they
absorbed comparatively massive amounts silver all day, every day for
decades of work time.
Some did note small tumors at injection sites using 1,200+ PPM silver
compounds but none of them were cancerous. They could not induce cancer in
any of the projects and found that a toxic dose of silver was enormously
high and it took enough silver to make bullets to kill a bunch of
dogs. The bullets would have done a better job.
The links that Rosemary attempted to use as proof, actually dis-proved her
claims. [They have since been buried]
The "real" deal...straight from the EPA and science labs. [collected by
Jason Eaton ]
http://www.silvermedicine.org/safety.html
___II.A.2. HUMAN CARCINOGENICITY DATA
No evidence of cancer in humans has been reported despite frequent
therapeutic use of the compound over the years.
Furst and Schlauder (1977) evaluated silver and gold for carcinogenicity in
a study designed to avoid solid-state carcinogenesis. Metal powder was
suspended in trioctanoin and injected monthly, i.m., Into 50 male and
female Fischer 344 rats per group. The dose was 5 mg each for 5 treatments
and 10 mg each for 5 more treatments for a total dose of 75 mg silver. The
treatment regimen included a vehicle control (a reportedly inert material),
and cadmium as a positive control. Injection site sarcomas were found only
in vehicle control (1/50), gold (1/50) and cadmium (30/50); no tumors
(0/50) appeared at the site of injection in the silver-treated animals. A
complete necropsy was performed on all animals. The authors mentioned the
existence of spontaneous tumors in Fischer 344 rats, but reported only
injection site tumors. They concluded that finely divided silver powder
injected i.m. does not induce cancer.
___II.A.4. SUPPORTING DATA FOR CARCINOGENICITY
Further support for the lack of silver's ability to induce or promote
cancer stems from the finding that, despite long standing and frequent
therapeutic usage in humans, there are no reports of cancer associated with
silver.
As the EPA studies show, the estimated amount of silver intake
[correction: "Retention" as in, all present at once. ] in order to be at
risk for Argyria is 3.8 ( to six ) grams of silver, although some
references site higher than 10 grams.
One teaspoon of 5 ppm colloidal silver contains about 25 micrograms of
silver, or .025 milligrams of silver. Six teaspoons, the equivalent of one
fluid ounce, therefore contains .15 milligrams of silver. The EPA's
critical dose for a 160 lb. adult is 1.09 milligrams daily. Taking one
ounce of colloidal silver daily, according to EPA guidelines, is well below
the critical daily intake for the development of argyria. Four ounces daily
would equal around .6 milligrams.
[A normal "low" elimination rate is around 94% in 48 hours ... Phalen and
Morrow 1968 ]
The EPA max recommended daily dose of silver in drinking water was
"Raised" considerably in recent years, to a level above what most CS/EIS
users make.
In animals supplemented with selenium and/or vitamin E, exposures of silver
as high as 140 mg/kg/day (100 mg Ag/L drinking water) were well-tolerated
(Bunyan et al., 1968).
The FDA Admits it has no Clinical Data Suggesting Isolated Silver is Unsafe
for Human Use
October 14th, 1999
Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department Of Health and
Human Services
Public Health Service
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
November 3, 1999
In Response Refer to File: F99-22589
[ Name Removed ], WA 98408
Dear [ name removed ]:
This is in response to your request of 10/14/99, in which you requested
adverse events associated with the use of Colloidal Silver. Your request
was received in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on 10/25/99.
We have searched the records from FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System
(AERS) and have been unable to locate any cases that would be responsive to
your request.
Ode
At 11:07 AM 10/22/2007 -0400, you wrote:
Will this do? http://www.cqs.com/silver.htm
Faith
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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: CS>Silver article at Pub Med
I see what you are saying. I thought there used to be a button for that,
but I don't see one on this abstract. They are located at the upper right.
It is possible that it is not available on pub med- it may only be indexed
with an abstract. If that is the case, you would need to find what library
has a copy of that journal, then you could possibly get a fisched copy
sent, or something like that.
The abstract says that colliodal silver proteins are bad for you. The part
about environmental exposure sounds interesting, though. I also saw a
whole list of other articles on silver on the right.
kathryn
On Oct 21, 2007, at 12:06 AM, alchemysa wrote:
Hi
I want to procure this particular article but don't know how. The
PubMed site doesn't seem to facilitate an easy purchase.
Anyone know how I can buy it? (Or got a copy they can 'loan' me?
Fung MC, Bowen DL. Silver products for medical indications:
risk-benefit assessment. Journal of Toxicology. Clinical Toxicology.
1996;34(1):119-126.
Thanks.
David
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