FDA - Part 8

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Tell the FDA not to change the definition of milk

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Tell the FDA not to change the definition of milk

If you were buying chocolate milk, would you think to check the ingredients for artificial sweeteners like aspartame? I wouldn't have, until I found out that the dairy industry wants to change the legal definition of milk (along with 17 other dairy products) to allow it to include aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. Can you take action to make sure that milk can only be called milk if it doesn't include aspartame? The dairy industry claim that they're being good samaritans by adding aspartame in milk to fight childhood obesity, but they're afraid that consumers, especially kids, won't buy chocolate milk (or other flavors) if it's labeled differently than regular chocolate milk. Can you imagine a kid in the school lunch line reading the ingredients on the back of her milk box to figure out if it has aspartame? Urge the FDA to keep the definition of milk as-is, so people won't be misled about their dairy products.

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FDA Approves Dangerous and Worthless Cholesterol Drug

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FDA Approves Dangerous and Worthless Cholesterol Drug

Why the FDA would approve this combination of Zetia and Lipitor is beyond belief. The previous combination of Zetia and Zocor, known as Vytorin, was proven to be a colossal failure in multiple studies. FDA’s action is a perfect example of why we spend more money on health care than any other people on the planet. Liptruzet will cost $5.50 per pill. This means a patient prescribed Liptruzet will spend over $2,000.00 per year on a worthless drug that will be associated with side effects such as muscle aches and pains, memory loss, and neurological disorders.

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FDA Presumes Itself Omniscient and Consumers Ignorant

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FDA Presumes Itself Omniscient and Consumers Ignorant

Do you think you are intelligent enough to decide for yourself the relative worth of scientific findings concerning the disease treatment and risk reduction effects of nutrients and foods? The FDA thinks you are not and that it must decide such questions for you in the first instance. Indeed, the FDA bans from the grocery store, the health food store, and online all commercial claims associating a food or nutrient with disease, regardless of whether the claims are supported by science. That broad prior restraint on speech contradicts the very premise of the First Amendment.

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FDA Lets Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market

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FDA Lets Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market

The FDA in 2011 announced years' worth of studies from a major drug research lab were potentially worthless, but it has not pulled any of the compounds from the market nor identified them.

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FDA: Mercury Poisoning Linked to Skin Products – But NOT Vaccines or Dental Amalgams

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FDA: Mercury Poisoning Linked to Skin Products – But NOT Vaccines or Dental Amalgams

Apparently, only the FDA can approve someone to poison you with mercury. They recently posted an article on their website warning consumers of the dangers of cosmetics produced outside the U.S. that contain mercury. But mercury embedded into your teeth via dental amalgams, or injected directly into your blood stream via the annual flu vaccination, is approved.

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Popular Diabetes Drugs Linked to Cancer

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FDA Now Censoring Consumer Free Speech on the Internet

by Alliance for Natural Health

Or, to be more precise, demanding that supplement companies do it on their orders. Action Alert!

The US Food and Drug Administration has recently issued warning letters to two different supplement companies. Here is what triggered one of them: supplement company AMARC Enterprises “liked” a Facebook customer testimonial about how their product helped “keep […]

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Should the FDA Have the Authority to Make Life and Death Decisions in Your Life?

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Should the FDA Have the Authority to Make Life and Death Decisions in Your Life?

Health Impact News Editor Comments: While this story is disturbing, I think we should address the larger question as to whether the FDA should have the power and authority to force or stop anyone from making a personal decision about their health and the the products they choose to take, regardless of whether or […]

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The FTC and FDA’s Sordid History of Overreach and Abuse of Power

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The FTC and FDA’s Sordid History of Overreach and Abuse of Power

FDA warning against raw milk.
By Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com

Power Grabs by the FTC are Underhanded Threats to Your Health
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have both taken serious steps to restrict or eliminate your access to certain foods and supplements. For example, the FTC recently decided to “make up its […]

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FDA and Pharmaceutical Companies Move to Take Over the Supplement Industry

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FDA and Pharmaceutical Companies Move to Take Over the Supplement Industry

Image courtesy of National Health Federation

Drug Industry Acquisition of the Supplement Marketplace
by Attorney Jonathan Emord
emord.com
Excerpts:
When I fought the Pearson v. Shalala battle against FDA in the late 1990s, the industry was far different than it is today (not only were consumers willing to pay a premium for specialty products in a highly diversified marketplace […]

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FDA Wants to Ban Raw Cheese Despite Absence of a Single Documented Illness in 23 Years

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FDA Wants to Ban Raw Cheese Despite Absence of a Single Documented Illness in 23 Years

by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient

(I have spent much of the last week reading a 189-page report issued jointly by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada, with the dry title, “Joint FDA/Health Canada Quantitative Assessment of the Risk of Listeriosis from Soft-Ripened Cheese Consumption in the United States and Canada”. The reading is […]

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Publication Bias—the Hidden Systematic Flaw in Medicine that Can Threaten Your Life

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Publication Bias—the Hidden Systematic Flaw in Medicine that Can Threaten Your Life

By Dr. Mercola

Exposure and concerns over medical research fraud is on the rise, and for good reason. Publication bias — the practice of selectively publishing trial results that serve an agenda — represents a “systematic flaw of the scientific basis of medicine,” Ben Goldacre says in his TED Talk above.

Indeed this issue is a […]

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FTC More Dangerous than FDA: Will Only Allow Drugs to Make Health Claims

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FTC More Dangerous than FDA: Will Only Allow Drugs to Make Health Claims

by Alliance for Natural Health
FTC Proceeds with Raw Power Grab on Health Claims—In Effect Thumbing Its Nose at Congress
Food company POM Wonderful’s battle with the FTC ends (for now) with the agency making up its own law and quashing free speech. Action Alert!

Last year, an administrative law judge (ALJ)* for the Federal Trade Commission upheld the pomegranate juice […]

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FDA Gives Sole Herbal Product Rights to Big Pharma

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FDA Gives Sole Herbal Product Rights to Big Pharma

The FDA has taken a freely-available herbal product, sap of the dragon’s blood tree, defined it as the drug Fulyzac, & handed it to Big Pharma. Nature’s gift is being polluted. What you get after Big Pharma and & the FDA get their hands on it has lost much of its value and often […]

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FDA Can Now Remove Any Dietary Supplement from the Market – Easier Than They Can Remove Drugs

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FDA Can Now Remove Any Dietary Supplement from the Market – Easier Than They Can Remove Drugs

Health Impact News Editor Comments: Almost nobody dies from overdosing on vitamins and dietary supplements, but well over 100,000 people a year die from properly prescribed prescription drugs. If one were to analyze the Food and Drug Association’s actions towards dietary supplements and pharmaceutical drugs, you would think it is the other way around.

Constitutional Attorney Jonathan […]

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FDA Approves Drug that Kills 5 Times More than Placebo

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FDA Approves Drug that Kills 5 Times More than Placebo

by Heidi Stevenson
Gaia-Health.com

Bedaquiline kills more than 5 times as many subjects as the placebo does, so what did the FDA do? If you think they’d ban it, you’ll be mistaken. They have approved it.

Update: The FDA didn’t just grant Sirturo (bedaquiline) fast track status. It’s worse than that. They have skipped fast tracking and went straight […]

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Shady Drug Approval Research Groups in India Dealt Blow by India Supreme Court

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Shady Drug Approval Research Groups in India Dealt Blow by India Supreme Court

Health Impact News Editor Comments: Last year we covered the NBC News Dateline’s story regarding the FDA drug approval process, and their use of clinical research organizations in India that are used to conduct human trials on new drugs by major pharmaceutical companies. To test the drug approval process, NBC Dateline setup a fictitious medical company […]

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Popular Weight Loss Drug Could Cause Permanent Liver and Kidney Damage

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Popular Weight Loss Drug Could Cause Permanent Liver and Kidney Damage

By Dr. Mercola

The weight loss drug orlistat (known as Xenical by prescription and Alli, available over-the-counter) is one of the most popular on the market.

Alli is even known to flaunt the fact that it’s approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its advertisements, using such slogans as “lose weight the FDA […]

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Tell President Obama and the FDA you won’t eat GMO salmon!

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Tell President Obama and the FDA you won’t eat GMO salmon!

by Food Democracy Now!

Right now President Obama and bureaucrats at the Food and Drug Administration are preparing to unleash genetically engineered salmon on the market. After years of controversial regulatory review, this past week the Obama administration cleared a final hurdle for AquaBounty’s GMO salmon to be approved at any moment.

On Friday, December 21st, […]

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Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forward With GE Salmon Approval

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Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forward With GE Salmon Approval

by Center for Food Safety
December 21, 2012 – 400,000 public comments, 40 Members of Congress ignored; CFS calls proposed approval of first ever GE animal “premature and misguided”
Center for Food Safety sharply criticized today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement releasing an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the controversial AquaBounty AquaAdvantage® transgenic salmon. The FDA action is […]

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