The original reason for the formation of the FDA was to prevent people from being very stupid and ignorant.
That way, everyone who has a glimmer of intelligence can't use it anymore and everyone is "protected" from themselves.
Opportunities for both [stupidity and ignorance] have increased over the years...and of course, people man the FDA. Since the FDA has assumed responsibility for stupidity and ignorance and no laws or job descriptions will ever make anyone smarter, they must do CYA [cover your ass..their ass, that is..] by prohibiting anything 'they' are stupid or ignorant about as well as anything 'anyone' can be stupid with.
Being the "authourity", they can't openly admit to not knowing something and will, instead, turn a blind eye until something bad happens to catch it or someone spends enough time and money to convince them they should.
Often, they'll make token rules that an intelligent and determined person can easily circumvent as in the case of DMSO...and most OTC drugs, as in, 'make it weak and not very bioavailabe'
That way, stupid ignorant people don't have easy access to the knowledge or source and if they happen upon it by determination and get into trouble, the FDA can blame someone else for being misleading, or the "idiot" for going around the system. [CYA]
So, how many people assume that because something is on the shelves at the store, it is safe at any dose?
Lots.
One pill for a minor headache...50 pills for a major headache, right?
They fill emergency rooms year round.
B12..if someone can inject it, some idiots will inject a lot of it. Solution: Control access to everyone, idiot or not and only allow common access to weak nearly nondigestible pills...but you can get the same liquid at the feed store made for people, labled for animals or as plant food or something. "food grade" H2O2..not to be eaten? "tetracycline" for fish "Industrial solvent"..for horses???? Oxygen for welding torches. ..maybe liquid ascorbic acid for cleaning counter tops.
The herd only moves as fast as the slowest straggler and 'maybe' looks at a map now and then.
Most "leaders" do so from the rear. [Because so many people demand that someone else cover their ass instead of covering their own. You are held responsible for what you tell someone but not for what you choose to hear and believe. ]
"This hindmost jackass stumbled..everyone slow down!"
Watchdogs can only see tails and buttholes.
The wolves do what they want, find a way to do it and can't blame anyone.
"Warning: The active ingrediant in Sleep Eaze may cause drowsiness"
..same ingredient as in common Jimson weed [scolopomine and atropine] only strong enough in the natural source in your back yard to make you trip your brains out for days on end and see triple for a week afterwards.
..Jimson weed isn't sold at the herb store..too dangerous...too easy to blast yourself clean off the planet.
Herbalists often water down their product too.
Sassafras root 'wood' is the only thing I've seen sold at stores. The major concentration of the ingredients are in the bark of the root, so why is the root peeled first? One strip of bark is enough to make a gallon of tea. Even fairly weak sassafrass tea is a powerful tonic and too much will make you ill. It's not a "beverage" at any real concentration or duration of use. Sassafras root bark contains sassafrol, a psychoactive drug and ingredient in making MDA and MDA analogs.
Ode
At 11:49 AM 12/4/2004 -0600, you wrote:
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<<<<Hi,
Absolutely! In the last few years B-12 and Vit. C were made prescription (liquid form). Reason is....................they work and work like a miracle! Can't have the lay people running around curing their animals and themselves!!!
Can't you see what they have in mind for us in the near future?
Jean Baugh
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I remember when some vitamins were prescription only. Why couldn't it happen again?
Sally
Ken & Nancy <[email protected]> wrote:
Joy,
I hear you, and you MIGHT be right that this can happen in America, but I
still doubt it. The Invisible Hand is always a work, and people have been
saying these stories about supplements being eliminated from the open market
for years, and nothing has really happened. The FDA is powerful, but it is
not that powerful. As someone mentioned earlier on this list, the supplement
industry also has enormous sums of money at its disposal, should they desire
to pool it and fight the government for freedom to operate and sell.
I won't say it cannot happen, and I will happily involve myself in
legitimate anti-FDA agendas, but I don't think CODEX is going to end up in
the way you describe. Even if it did, people find ways to get what they
need.
-Ken Bagwell
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From: "Joy" To:
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: CS>The FDA, silver, and CODEX...
>
>
> Sorry Ken, but this way of thinking seems to me to be like wearing
> blinders. This IS happening in Europe and Australia as we speak - they
> were "sure" as you are below that it wouldn't/couldn't happen, but it is
> happening. And FDA does not have to prove that supplements are
> dangerous. They don't do the testing. The companies trying to sell
> products have to get them approved - have to do their own testing, by
> impartial folks - but they have to pay the bill according to tests FDA
> sets up. And FDA can arbitrarily say "nope". I'm so frustrated with
> this even on regular meds - have a life-threatening condition that
> causes my throat to swell shut from time to time. This isn't an
> allergy, its caused by a missing enzyme that my body just doesn't
> p! roduce enough of - its a genetic condition. The only thing I can do is
> go to ER and get blood products that provide the missing enzyme. And
> hope I don't get anything dangerous from the blood products, and don't
> need to be entubated or worse. Europe has had acute treatments for 15
> plus years now, effefctive, safe. FDA won't approve them. Not big
> enough market (there are very few of us with this condition) to support
> the testing FDA requires, so its not happening.
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