This is what he wants to do to OUR VITAMINS and HERBS ! 

The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs and other natural 
substances, including water when it is used to "treat" dehydration, should be classified as 
drugs, and opponents have only until April 30 to express their concern about the proposals 
under Docket No. 2006D-0480.

The government agency under the direction of Andrew C. von Eschenbach, who became 
commissioner in 2006, also has put its "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products 
and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration" on a fast track for implementation.

But parents' groups, natural remedy interests, food and herb businesses and others are 
horrified. A group called Gentle Christian Mothers alerted its constituency in no 
uncertain terms.

"Please Read!!! The FDA is trying to regulate all things that are considered by them to be 
treatment for disease. They want to regulate vitamins, herbs, alternative therapies (things 
like hot stone therapy), even down to juices and holy water," the warning said. "It might 
mean having to go to a doctor or medical professional for vitamins."

The website noted that among likely developments if the FDA has its way:

• Growing and selling common garden herbs will get you arrested as a drug dealer.

• Massage oils and handheld massagers will be regulated as "medical devices."

• Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug.

• Weight machines will be regulated as "medical devices" and require FDA approval 
before being sold or used.

• Raw sprouts and other anti-cancer foods will be regulated as drugs.

• Bottled water that "treats" dehydration will be regulated as a drug.

• Massage therapists who use hot rocks as part of their therapy will have the ROCKS 
regulated as medical devices! (It's true. The FDA will actually look at a pile of rocks and 
declare, "Those are medical devices!")

• Foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will disappear from store 
shelves, pending FDA "review."

• Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for "practicing medicine 
without a license."

"This could be potentially devastating, not just to my business but to any business 
relating to supplements," Sophy Winnick, a Felton, Calif., mother of four who has 
been selling Youngevity products for 10 years, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. "People 
better get on the horn about this."

The FDA's "draft guidance" on the issue first appeared in December, but federal officials 
said it was printed in the Federal Register on Feb. 27, prompting the growing storm of protest.

The FDA has reported that approximately one-third of all adult Americans have 
reported participating in or using some form of "complementary and alternative 
medicine" and officials estimate nutritional supplement sales total about $5 billion 
a year in America.

The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs and other natural 
substances, including water when it is used to "treat" dehydration, should be classified 
as drugs, and opponents have only until April 30 to express their concern about the 
proposals under Docket No. 2006D-0480.
 

"There are those who do not trust the U.S. government to act in the interest of its citizens 
over the interests of pharmaceutical companies and health insurance providers," he said. 
"Those people have good reason to feel this way, and the amount of dangerous – DEADLY, 
even – pharmaceutical drugs that get recalled … is testament to the fact that human beings 
can be used as guinea pigs because the FDA allows the pharmaceutical industry to release 
drugs that haven't been properly tested."

As WND recently reported, Merck and Co. had been donating to state legislators across the 
nation who in return were working to require young girls to be given Merck's $400 vaccine 
that prevents a virus that is spread only through sexual contact.

WND also has reported on the mandatory anthrax shots for members of the military, even 
though they had not been fully tested, and the possibility that government officials also 
could order civilians to be vaccinated.

"This [new] proposal would allow the FDA to control your access to 'alternatives' to the 
broken, profit-driven, corrupt pharmaceutical industry here in the U.S.

"This move by the FDA is designed to once and for all destroy the 1994 DSHEA law that 
has made supplements 'legal' while eliminating nutritional supplements and natural medicine 
from the United States, ensuring monopoly profits and control by drug companies and 
the FDA," he said.

"Under these proposed guidelines, FDA 'experts' (the same corrupt officials who re-approved 
Vioxx after it killed over 50,000 Americans) will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins 
or simple devices like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical devices," 
Adams continued. "If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things 
are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and 
regulated out of existence. Anyone who dares to manufacture, promote or sell such products 
may be branded a criminal and rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well established 
history of suppressing natural medicine."

"This is not a drill. It really is time to be alarmed," he said. "Nothing else I've written about 
this year is as important as this sinister plot to destroy natural medicine and force the 
American population to resort to dangerous prescription medications sold at monopoly
prices under a system of medical tyranny."

For example, he cited wording directly from the FDA plans: "…if a person decides to produce 
and sell raw vegetable juice for use in juice therapy to promote optimal health … [and] if the
juice therapy is intended for use as part of a disease treatment regiment…, the vegetable juice 
would also be subject to regulation as a drug."

Keep in mind, he said, the FDA is the agency that "openly allows the mass poisoning of 
the public with cancer-causing food additives such as sodium nitrite."

According to his website, Adams suffered from degenerative disease, was nearly obese 
and diabetic by 30. He became a student of nutrition and natural therapies and gave 
up all pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter drugs, caffeine and pursued a natural foods 
diet with exercise.

He lost 50 pounds, his diabetes symptoms vanished and his blood pressured reached 
105/60, so he began a writing and teaching career on his own transformation.

An essay by Roger Wicke at Rocky Mountain Hi Herbal noted, "The unstated purpose 
of the FDA, and similar organizations in many other countries, is and always has been 
the protection of major pharmaceutical company profits. Expensive testing protocols 
act as a way to keep drugs and herbs within the control of the international cartels. 
While such tests may make sense for newly synthesized drugs with no track record in 
cultural tradition or popular usage, they are inappropriate for herb and food products, 
especially those with a long history of usage."

The FDA, in its announcement, said the federal government has been investigating and
monitoring "complementary and alternative medicine" since 1992. It also said 
"depending on the … therapy or practice, a product used … may be subject to regulation."

Secondly, it noted, the law does not exempt alternative medicine products from regulation.

Alan Stang, writing on etherzone.com, was a little more blunt.

"Recently we wrote about the 72-year-old Florida grandmother whom the Food and Drug 
Administration Nazis are charging with a couple of felonies and some misdemeanors for 
helping cancer victims get the laetrile (Vitamin B-17) they need," he wrote. "Now here 
come these same offspring of unmarried female canines, with a scheme that may outlaw 
dietary supplements…"

He said where such laws already have kicked in, Echinacea, which recharges the immune 
system, used to cost $14 a bottle, but now is $153. "Because they work, they have now 
become 'drugs,'" he said.

    DO YOU WANT TO BECOME THE SAME as EUROPE they have to go to a DOCTOR 
for vitamins ?   The DOCTORS don't know anything about the drugs they give you NOW !
And they sure as hell do not know about vitamins ! ! 
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