Alert: FDA Attempting to Regulate Supplements,Herb

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Here is just one of many sites you can find this at.

www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4803.cfm


Or straight from the horses mouth:
www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/06d-0480-gld0001.pdf



From the document:"...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 regimen instead of for the general wellness, the vegetable juice would also be subject to regulation as a drug under the Act."

Translation:Raw vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug and must be FDA approved as a drug if it has any health effect whatsoever. Handing a cup of raw vegetable juice to someone and telling them it's good for the detoxification of their liver will get you arrested for practicing medicine without a license and promoting an "unapproved drug."



Land of the free?

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Ahem... note the correction on the first link:

OCA Web Note, April 16, 2007: While the OCA was initially very concerned about this alert, which we recieved from Mike Adams' News Target organization, after painstaking review of the FDA guidance document we have determined that the document does not call for any NEW regulatory or enforcement action, but merely clarifies existing ways that the FDA classifies (or "thinks") about different types of products used in alternative and complementary medicine. After some discussion with our colleagues in the natural health freedom movement, we have decided that this document is not of any real significance.

No big deal.

And vegetable juice? It's not judging it as a drug, but as FOOD... and it always has done that.