Ok - you win - let it be an antibiotic- I just hope people who want to sell CS don't think that they can do and say anything that pops into their heads without getting into hot water with the FDA. This thread started with someone who wanted to market their product and had a pretty descriptive paragraph for CS. Words have to be chosen carefully when marketing - which was what I was trying to do in describing it as not being an antibiotic. If they want to use that term - I hope they enjoy their sales and possibly a day of confrontation with your FDA. Web sites up here (0 latitude) are not leaned on lightly when it comes to product claims. Many people have been shut down for not choosing words carefully. And in the day of confrontation, the rhetoric on a silver discussion list won't cut any mustard.
Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:40 AM Subject: Re: CS>FTC regulations? > Ian Roe wrote: > > > WHOH! I did not say CS did not work - read my post. I've got someone > > saying I claimed it did not kill germs. That is not what I said - what I > > said was that it was not an antibiotic. > > I am really having a hard time getting a line on what you are saying. Since an > antibiotic is any substance that kills life by definition, and you say it is not > an antibiotic, but kills germs, are you trying to say that germs are not life? > Maybe you should give us your personal definitions since they do not seem to > agree with the dictionary for the following terms: > > antibiotic > germs > life > > > > > > > Flames will kill germs. Flames are not an antibiotic either. > > Actually according to the definition at webster, heat would qualify as being > antibiotic. > > > Selling a > > device that makes flames and calling it an antibiotic would be ridiculous. > > > > They already to that. But they tend to call it sterlization by convention which > has a much narrower definition: "sterilize - d : to free from living > microorganisms". An antibiotic can kill only one thing and still be called an > antibiotic, but sterlization kills everything. It would be rediculous to try > and market a sterlizer using the term antibiotic since that would mean it might > not kill all germs, when in fact it does. A marketing department would never do > that. > > > Antibiotic is a term spawned by the drug cartel used to describe drugs that > > work in a particular manner. > > That is false. There was no drug cartel in 1894 when the work was first coined. > In fact there were no "modern antibiotics" then either, just things like silver > and quinine. > > I don't believe antibiotic correctly describes > > > I don't believe antibiotic correctly describes CS. And I think that calling > > it such and marketing it as such would get > > someone in hot water with the FDA and thus would further hinder the cause. > > It either kills life or it doesn't. I know it does. The meaning of antibiotic > is defined in the dictionary. If you don't like the definition, take it up with > Merriam and Webster. > > Marshall > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
