The FDA is claiming regulation rights on ALL products recommended by alternative health care practitioners. All herbs and supplements would be defined as untested drugs. They also have specific language intended to capture "functional foods," which would include superfoods.

If they succeed, they could ban or require prescriptions for vitamins, minerals, amino acids, EFAs, enzymes, probiotics, protein powder, herbal or homeopathic remedies, basically everything on the shelves at your local health food store.

To read background info and sign the petition, go here:
tinyurl.com/2u7ghc

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Here is the message from Dr. Rima Laibow of the Natural Solutions Foundation, who has been valiantly leading the fight against implementation of Codex Alimentarius:

There is a crisis in health freedom. On April 30, 2007 the FDA will close the public comment period on a "Guidance" which will classify every alternative practice as medicine so that only licensed physicians can carry out the procedure AND vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc., will suddenly become "untested drugs" which will be forbidden.

Bad? Real Bad! But public outcry can stop this assault on your health and your freedom.

Spread the word! Tell everyone in your Circle of Influence, professionals, alternative practitioners, nutrient and herb companies, everyone! Let them know how important their participation is to make sure the FDA backs off from this repressive course.

Please share this link with them and urge them to take action: tinyurl.com/2u7ghc

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

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To read the actual FDA “guidance”, go here:
www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKET...0-gld0001.pdf

If you don’t have time to read it, here is my summary:

* The FDA is, in fact, attempting to claim “regulation rights” to every sort of alternative healthcare modality, in five major categories:
- biological-based practices (plant- or animal-derived extracts) (would include herbs and homeopathics, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids, proteins, pre-biotics, pro-biotics, “whole diets,” “functional foods”)
- energy medicine (both machine- and human-generated)
- manipulative and body-based practices (any hands-on bodywork)
- mind-body medicine (specifically includes meditation, yoga, spirituality!)
- “whole medical systems” (e.g., Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Naturopathy).
* The FDA is, in fact, attempting to claim “regulation rights” to ANY products or devices used in the provision of ANY of these therapies if any health benefits are claimed.
* There is language that would define all untested herbs as drugs or “new drugs.”
* There is specific language that would define vegetable juice as a drug IF therapeutic benefits were claimed.
* There is language that would claim regulation rights to any food additives (such as botanicals or enzymes), unless they were commonly used in foods prior to January 1, 1958, or have since been scientifically tested safe.
* There is language that would classify the bacteria in probiotics in the same category as vaccines and viruses, and therefore require a license to transport them across state lines.

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Here’s what Dr. Jon Barron has to say about FDA regulating supplements and therapies:
www.jonbarron.org/blog_publ....html#more

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Please read “Winning the Health Freedom War”
www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php/

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Sounds wacky, but Mike Adams has backup for his statements:
New FDA Guidelines Threaten Religious Freedoms: Holy Water could be regulated as “drugs” and rosaries as “medical devices.”
www.newstarget.com/021792.html

More from Mike Adams:
FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as “drugs”
www.newstarget.com/021789.html


Infinite Blessings,

Andrea