MedicalConspiracies- FDA unleashes end game scheme to outlaw virtually all dietary supplements

 

FDA unleashes end game scheme to outlaw virtually all dietary supplements
formulated after 1994 (NaturalNews) In the wake of hundreds of dietary
supplements recently being outlawed across the EU, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has quietly unleashed a regulatory scheme that, if fully
implemented, could ban virtually all dietary supplements in the USA that were
formulated after 1994.

That means nearly all superfoods, multivitamins, detox supplements, and
medicinal herbal products we have all come to depend on to prevent disease and
boost our immune health could soon be stripped from store shelves and outlawed
across the nation. I call it the "End Game" of the FDA's war against humanity:
Phase one was the enforcement of nutritional ignorance by threatening and
raiding companies that dared to make truthful health claims on their own
websites (http://www.naturalnews.com/021791.html). Phase two involves "nuking"
the entire dietary supplements industry by simply denying the use of nearly all
the ingredients presently used in supplement products.

An effort to destroy nearly all modern supplements?The discovery of this new End
Game strategy by the FDA to outlaw virtually all dietary supplements comes to us
from the Alliance for Natural Health, the leading health freedom non-profit
group in America, and the group that consistently reports fact-based
information on how the FDA and FTC are squashing health freedom in America.
Their most recent announcement, entitled FDA's New Sneak Attack on Supplements
(http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-new-snea...) explains how this new assault on your
freedom is being engineered by the FDA.

Here's the brief story of where this comes from and how the FDA is now waging a
new war on our vitamins, herbs and supplements:

In 1994, after years of armed raids, oppression and censorship by the FDA,
Congress passed a law known as DSHEA. This is the law that essentially forced
the FDA to stop regulating dietary supplements out of existence, and groups
such as the Life Extension Foundation (www.LEF.org) were instrumental in helping
get this law passed in 1994.

But one of the little-known sections of the law required dietary supplement
manufacturers to "notify" the FDA any time they used a new ingredient in their
formulations. However, the details on how supplement companies were supposed to
abide by these notification guidelines (called "NDI" or New Dietary Ingredient
rules) were never published by the FDA, and since 1994, this entire section of
DSHEA has remained essentially unenforced (or selectively enforced).

Now, suddenly, the FDA has decided it wants to enforce NDI, and its enforcement
of this technicality would essentially amount to the FDA denying permission to
use nearly all dietary supplement ingredients introduced since 1994. So last
Friday, the FDA proposed its new rules on NDI -- on the Friday before a long
weekend, no less, which is a common tactic government uses when it wants to do
something that nobody notices -- and these new rules run the risk of being
adopted as active regulations, threatening virtually the entire dietary
supplement industry with an eventual shutdown.

Why did the FDA wait 17 years to take action on NDI rules? Believe it or not,
this was mandated under the new Food Safety Bill (S.510 remember?) that Congress
passed into law late last year without even reading the bill
(http://www.naturalnews.com/030789_F...). So now, the FDA has been forced into
issuing these new guidelines, and it obviously is going to take every
opportunity it can to destroy the nutritional supplements industry (and thereby
protect the profits of Big Pharma).

FDA goes Fukushima on dietary supplementsImportantly, nearly all vitamin and
supplement ingredients could soon be banned under the FDA's new NDI rules
because very few supplement ingredients can be conclusively shown to have been
widely used BEFORE 1994. As the ANH points out, the FDA recently banned a common
form of vitamin B6 by claiming the vitamin was a "drug" that was never
"approved" for use in supplements (http://www.anh-usa.org/when-is-a-vi...).

That story is also covered here on NaturalNews:
http://www.naturalnews.com/025606_v...

The upshot of all this is that by issuing new guidelines on the NDI
requirements, the FDA can now essentially disallow the use of virtually all
supplement ingredients that exist in the market today. As ANH warns:

"We fear that they will use this power to ban any supplement innovation unless
the supplement is turned into a drug and brought through the drug approval
process. Since nobody can afford to pay for the new drug approval process if
the substance is not patented, and supplements generally already exist in
nature and cannot therefore be patented, to require full new drug approval is
to ensure that there will be no new supplements. This should suit the drug
industry very well and, based on past behavior, the FDA as well."

Supplement companies would need to seek FDA approval for all their
formulationsThrough this clever trick with NDI rules, the FDA can now position
itself as the gatekeeper for all supplement approvals. Far from merely being a
requirement to "notify" the FDA of the use of new ingredients, NDI rules
essentially subject supplements to approval from the FDA.

As the FDA has proven time and time again, it can simply refuse to approve
anything used in natural products. Even today, the FDA refuses to approve
walnuts for preventing heart disease, or vitamin C preventing scurvy. The FDA
won't even admit that vitamin D can prevent rickets! Imagine the difficulty of
trying to get the FDA to approve cherry extracts, or Chinese medicine herbs, or
glucosamine for that matter. Nearly all the top supplements you've come to
enjoy and value over the last two and a half decades are now threatened with
being utterly outlawed and stripped off the shelves.

The FDA, in other words, is now gearing up to gut the natural products industry,
bankrupt vitamin retailers and enslave the American people in a system of
failed chemical medicine where they now have zero options for natural
nutritional therapies. This, of course, would cause chronic disease rates to
explode across the nation, greatly enriching the pharmaceutical industry and
cancer treatment centers, all of which must be cheering these proposed new
rules as a great way to recruit new patients who can then be milked for
profits.

But synthetic drugs need no notification approval!Amazingly (or maybe not, if
you know the FDA), the new NDI rules state that synthetic copies of natural
molecules are exempted from any new reporting requirements. Thus, drug
companies that commit biopiracy and steal molecules from nature then turn them
into chemical drugs are exempted from this whole thing. But natural product
companies offering safe, effective and full-spectrum nutrients made by Mother
Nature are suddenly put out of business.

These rules are selectively applied, in other words, only to natural products,
not synthetic chemicals. It is yet another monopolistic betrayal of the
American people by the FDA, an agency that has consistently and maliciously
taken every opportunity to protect the drug companies while destroying the
natural products industry. (http://www.naturalnews.com/021952.html)

"In these proposed rules, the FDA has effectively created a de facto
pre-market approval system" for nutritional supplements, says the ANH. And the
FDA will, of course, routinely deny virtually all supplement ingredients from
ever being approved. Because the FDA is already on the record with its position
that there is no such thing as any vitamin, nutrient, herb or food that has any
biological effect whatsoever that could prevent, cure or reverse any disease or
health condition.

That's the FDA's official position! With that kind of distortion, it is
impossible for this agency to ever recognize the innate ability of any natural
ingredient to actually produce a health benefit.

Take action nowHelp us oppose the FDA's proposed new rules by signing this
online petition. Click here for the petition.

Once again, your representatives in Washington need to hear from you -- pronto!
-- if you hope to maintain your right to purchase vitamins and supplements in
the USA.

Lest you think this is an exaggerated warning, keep in mind that hundreds of
dietary supplements have just been banned across the EU
(http://www.naturalnews.com/032302_h...). Regulators in the USA are gunning for
the same kind of wipeout of the supplements industry as a way to lock in
decades of disease profits for Big Pharma and the greed-driven cancer industry
(which cares far more about treating cancer than preventing it).

If these new FDA regulations go into effect, your access to dietary supplements
could simply disappear before the end of this year, turning vitamin sellers
into "criminal dealers" and "smugglers" (much like raw milk retailers today).
Armed FDA raids would be conducted on vitamin and supplement companies, and the
founders of those companies would be rounded up and sent to prison for their
"crimes" of selling unapproved ingredients.

This is the FDA's end game. Even if the FDA only partially enforces this new
rule, it would still place a heavy compliance burden on small nutritional
supplement companies. As the ANH says, "The bottom line is that when new and
unreasonable burdens are placed on supplement manufacturers, it immediately
becomes a financial increase for consumers. And if the pressure becomes too
great, the nutritional supplements on which you rely may simply become
unavailable."

That's exactly what the FDA wants, of course: To put dietary supplement
companies out of business, leaving the field open only to those pharma-chemical
vitamin companies largely owned by the drug companies themselves. They use
synthetic chemicals which are NOT subjected to these new FDA rules. Many of
those synthetic vitamins are, in essence, poisons. Isn't it interesting that
the FDA says companies need no approval to use poisons in their formulations,
but they need FDA permission to use natural substances that actually prevent
disease?

Learn more at the ANH: http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-new-snea...

And please consider supporting this outstanding group with a donation so that
it can continue its mission of staying on top of legislative and regulatory
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supporter, and we honor the work this group is doing.

Stay tuned to NaturalNews.com for more reporting on this latest FDA assault on
health freedom.

Read the FDA recommended regulations yourselfYou can view them at:
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceCom...
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