The FDA Is Up to Something.

Do you ever take herbal suppliments, vitamins or bottled water? If you do, the FDA wants you to get permission first. They have launched a plan to impose new regulations by declaring them as part of healthcare. The FDA quietly put put a document on its web site in December. It's titled "Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration." This document is open to public comment until April 30, 2007.

After that, the FDA officials will evaluate the comments and decide if they should create regulations to make it a crime to take vitamin C for a old without their permission. It could also be a crime to drink bottled water if you take it to aleviate the condition of dehydration. The gist of the document is if you take a suppliment to treat a symptom, that suppliment is medicine and will be regulated by them. There's a qualifying statement: The supplement will be exempted if it is "generally recognized, among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of drugs, as safe and effective for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling." In other words, the freedom to use a supplement to treat a condition will be at the discretion of FDA experts. And given the track record of FDA experts, this is really bad news.

You can read the document for yourself at: http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/06d-0480-gld0001.pdf

You can submit comments here: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/COMMENTSMain.CFM?EC_DOCUMENT_ID=1451&SUBTYP=CONTINUE&CID=&AGENCY=FDA

You should also let every elected official know about these over-reaching bureaucrats before you must get their permission to wear pants to prevent low temperature sensitivity.

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