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FDA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ELIMINATE VITAMIN COMPANIES
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
June 27, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company,
has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with
business and intentionally eliminating various dietary
supplement companies from the market. The FDA announcement
came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under the guise of a final rule
for dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (CGMPs).
Within this 800 page rule the FDA states, "We find that this
final rule will have a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.... Establishments with
above average costs, and even establishments with average
costs, could be hard pressed to continue to operate. Some of
these may decide it is too costly and either change product
lines or go out of business.... 140 very small [less than 20
employees] and 32 small dietary supplement manufacturers [less
than 500 employees] will be at risk of going out of
business.... costs per establishment are proportionally higher
for very small than for large establishments....The regulatory
costs of this final rule will also discourage new small
businesses from entering the industry."
This FDA rule will directly raise the price of dietary
supplements for all consumers. The FDA acknowledges this and
says "We expect that the majority of these costs will be borne
by consumers of dietary supplements, who will likely respond
to the increase in prices by reducing consumption." Thus, the
FDA is intentionally seeking to shrink the size of the dietary
supplement industry and reduce the influence of safe and
effective options to improve the dreadful trend in the health
of Americans. The goal is to leave toxic drugs as the primary
health option.
Independent analysis of this FDA rule has placed cost of
compliance at 10 fold what the FDA estimates with as many as
50% of small companies unable to comply.
The gutless cowards of Congress, a majority of whom are on the
Big Pharma payroll or will be on it once they leave Congress,
have delegated their lawmaking powers granted by the U.S.
Constitution to a bunch of Big Pharma-friendly unelected
bureaucrats at the FDA, who are in turn using this power to
undermine free commerce and help Big Pharma eliminate
competition from the market. This is the behavior of a
government in tyranny, inviting a revolution by the people. It
is noteworthy that fascist governments of the past have
eliminated health freedom and health options as a necessary
condition to enslave and brainwash a population. Congress has
delegated its responsibility to the people to such an extent
that over half the laws in this country are now concocted by
unelected bureaucrats with vested interests.
A Vehicle for Unprecedented Harassment
Any company that can afford to comply with the costs and
regulations of this new FDA rule can be targeted and
eliminated at will by the FDA. In essence, the FDA is seeking
to make the dietary supplement industry document every phase
of production, including expensive testing at multiple points
in the production process. Massive recordkeeping will be
required, including all customer complaints and returns for
any reason! This is utterly draconian and unnecessary
interference and burden to free commerce. It is completely
Anti- American. No doubt, the FDA will impose user fees as an
additional charge so that FDA agents will have the funding
required to enforce the regulations. Under the new rule any
flaw in bookkeeping can result in a company's products being
declared adulterated, allowing the FDA to remove them from
the market even though nothing is wrong with them! A company
can then be forced out of business because they won't be able
to sell any products to raise the money to comply. The rules
are so complex and vague that the FDA can selectively target
any company it chooses, even those attempting to comply in
good faith.
The FDA is doing this under the pretense of improved consumer
safety. Consumer safety could readily be guaranteed by simply
having all companies test their final products for purity and
potency. Instead of this simple approach the FDA has gone to
the extreme of burdening the dietary supplement industry with
regulations in excess of the drug industry! Supplements are
foods, not drugs. The food industry couldn't begin to comply
with these FDA rules, even though food contamination is far
more dangerous to health than dietary supplements.
The FDA intends to phase this rule in over the next three
years. This means that within five years half the industry and
many of the health options individuals rely on will either be
gone or significantly more expensive.
Even more chilling is that forces within the dietary
supplement industry itself are in no small part responsible
for this FDA final rule.
Trade Groups and their Big Companies Turn on America
The Natural Products Association (formerly the National
Nutritional Food Association - NNFA) and the Council for
Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have been instrumental in forcing
these drug-like rules on dietary supplements. These globalist
organizations are selling out America, destroying American
jobs, undermining the U.S. Constitution, and working in
conjunction with pharmaceutical companies to usher in Codex
and the New World Order. Consumers of dietary supplements
should learn who these companies are before buying their
products and helping to inadvertently fund the destruction of
health freedom in this country.
When DSHEA was passed in 1994 part of that law required the
FDA to establish current good manufacturing practices (CGMPs)
for the dietary supplement industry. During a period of FDA
outreach to the industry the FDA was surprised to learn that
CRN and NPA were in favor of drug- like CGMPs for the dietary
supplement industry. These trade groups, working closely with
Senators Orin Hatch (R-UT) and Tom Harkin (D-IA), have
intentionally taken the supplement industry down a slippery
slope. It is noteworthy that Hatch takes in more money from
Big Pharma than he does from dietary supplement companies. Not
only is Hatch a big supporter of the Medicare Part D drug rip
off of Americans he has saved Big Pharma billions by
protecting them from generic competition, as he is currently
attempting to do with his legislation for new biologic drugs.
Hatch also has a son working for NPA and another son that
lobbies for NPA and the dietary supplement industry. When
Hatch leaves the Senate he will be first in line for a six or
seven figure Big Pharma salary.
The CRN has been taken over by multinational drug and food
companies. Key players are the nutritional divisions of Bayer,
BASF, Cargill, Monsanto, Wyeth, and Archer Daniels Midland.
Nutrition companies that participate are in most cases owned
by pharmaceutical companies, heavily invested in
pharmaceutical companies, or jockeying for position in the
international market as part of the New World Order. Key names
include Mannatech, Shaklee, Herbalife, GNLD International, The
Vitamin Shoppe, and GNC. These companies are glad to eliminate
competition from small companies and start up ventures.
Carrying on the general theme of Big Pharma ownership and a
globalist agenda are the companies that control the NPA. One
need only look at the new NPA China board to understand who
these key players are. Jarrow Formulas, Now Foods, GNC, and
Herbalife top the list. At the end of 2006 Jarrow and Now
helped lead the charge with Senators Hatch and Harkin to
burden the dietary supplement industry with bizarre Adverse
Event Reporting legislation (AER) which insisted that dietary
supplement companies keep extensive records on any type of
consumer complaint. Aspects of this AER law are now
implemented in the FDA final rule on CGMPs. Of course, NPA was
quick to offer expensive training to its members to
indoctrinate them into how to comply with the rules that NPA,
working on behalf of the FDA, just forced on its own members.
Are their member companies really this stupid? Or are they all
working together? I would recommend that any NPA member that
believes itself to be a true American company that values our
constitution immediately withdraw from NPA membership -
consumers will be looking to see who you are.
The picture is now crystal clear for any person who cares to
look. Numerous dietary supplement companies are anti-American
and actively selling out our country and our constitution,
working hand-in-glove with the FDA and Big Pharma. The
majority of such companies can be found as members of CRN and
NPA. It will be up to the American consumer to save the
dietary industry from itself and preserve their own access to
safe and effective natural health remedies. This is a
relatively simple task. Quit buying products from or quit
being a distributor in these fascist organizations. Support
the small companies that are the backbone of America,
otherwise they will soon be extinct.
Update on S.1082 Threat to Dietary Supplements
Many of you have been following the extreme threat to dietary
supplements posed by S.1082. Similar legislation has now
cleared the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is headed
for the floor of the House in the next week or two. The House
version of this bill now contains the "food and food
ingredients" language that the FDA can use to apply
drug-related risk/benefit analysis to dietary supplements and
have them removed from the market at their whim.
It is noteworthy that both CRN and NPA have posted on their
websites information stating that S.1082 is not a threat to
dietary supplements. Both organizations are flat out wrong.
They cite a colloquy by Hatch, Harkin, Kennedy, and Enzi as
their evidence. This colloquy was a direct result of our
grassroots campaign to alert the American consumer to this
major threat. In no way does this colloquy protect dietary
supplements. UNTIL THE LANGUAGE IN THE BILL IS CHANGED THE
THREAT EXISTS AND IS VERY REAL.
CRN and NPA also tell their members that the Codex initiative
to scare consumers into thinking that dietary supplements are
unsafe above miniscule amounts and need to be regulated by
international laws is also no big deal. It is clear that CRN
and NPA, again working hand-in- glove with the FDA, are a
major part of the problem and are actively engaged in
forwarding the globalist agenda of the New World Order. While
pretending to represent the dietary supplement industry these
organizations are in fact shooting the industry in the back
and undermining health options for Americans.
The FDA is Out of Control
The FDA is a tyrannical organization that is now emboldened
and completely out of control. It is not surprising that the
FDA is seeking to eliminate competition to Big Pharma, they
have been doing that for much of the past century. What is
surprising is that they are openly stating in their final rule
a plan that directly eliminates small businesses from
existence. This fascist organization believes itself to be
above the rule of law and is actively working against America
and the rights of Americans. It must be stopped.
=A9 2007 Truth in Wellness, LLC - All Rights Reserved
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Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources, is
a Board- Certified Clinical Nutritionist and
nationally-renowned health expert, radio personality, and
educator. He is the author of Mastering Leptin, The Leptin
Diet, and Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal
of America.
Richards encourages individuals to take charge of their
health, stand up for their health rights, and not blindly
succumb to propaganda from the vested-interests who profit
from keeping Americans sick. As founder of Wellness Resources,
Inc. of Minneapolis, MN, an independently-owned fine-quality
dietary supplement company since 1985, he has personally
developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade nutritional formulas.
www.wellnessresources.com
FREE Subscription to Byron's Health Newsletter, click here.
E-mail: byron@truthinwellness.com
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Life Extension Foundation: http://www.lef.org/
FDA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ELIMINATE VITAMIN COMPANIES
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
June 27, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company,
has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with
business and intentionally eliminating various dietary
supplement companies from the market. The FDA announcement
came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under the guise of a final rule
for dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (CGMPs).
Within this 800 page rule the FDA states, "We find that this
final rule will have a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.... Establishments with
above average costs, and even establishments with average
costs, could be hard pressed to continue to operate. Some of
these may decide it is too costly and either change product
lines or go out of business.... 140 very small [less than 20
employees] and 32 small dietary supplement manufacturers [less
than 500 employees] will be at risk of going out of
business.... costs per establishment are proportionally higher
for very small than for large establishments....The regulatory
costs of this final rule will also discourage new small
businesses from entering the industry."
This FDA rule will directly raise the price of dietary
supplements for all consumers. The FDA acknowledges this and
says "We expect that the majority of these costs will be borne
by consumers of dietary supplements, who will likely respond
to the increase in prices by reducing consumption." Thus, the
FDA is intentionally seeking to shrink the size of the dietary
supplement industry and reduce the influence of safe and
effective options to improve the dreadful trend in the health
of Americans. The goal is to leave toxic drugs as the primary
health option.
Independent analysis of this FDA rule has placed cost of
compliance at 10 fold what the FDA estimates with as many as
50% of small companies unable to comply.
The gutless cowards of Congress, a majority of whom are on the
Big Pharma payroll or will be on it once they leave Congress,
have delegated their lawmaking powers granted by the U.S.
Constitution to a bunch of Big Pharma-friendly unelected
bureaucrats at the FDA, who are in turn using this power to
undermine free commerce and help Big Pharma eliminate
competition from the market. This is the behavior of a
government in tyranny, inviting a revolution by the people. It
is noteworthy that fascist governments of the past have
eliminated health freedom and health options as a necessary
condition to enslave and brainwash a population. Congress has
delegated its responsibility to the people to such an extent
that over half the laws in this country are now concocted by
unelected bureaucrats with vested interests.
A Vehicle for Unprecedented Harassment
Any company that can afford to comply with the costs and
regulations of this new FDA rule can be targeted and
eliminated at will by the FDA. In essence, the FDA is seeking
to make the dietary supplement industry document every phase
of production, including expensive testing at multiple points
in the production process. Massive recordkeeping will be
required, including all customer complaints and returns for
any reason! This is utterly draconian and unnecessary
interference and burden to free commerce. It is completely
Anti- American. No doubt, the FDA will impose user fees as an
additional charge so that FDA agents will have the funding
required to enforce the regulations. Under the new rule any
flaw in bookkeeping can result in a company's products being
declared adulterated, allowing the FDA to remove them from
the market even though nothing is wrong with them! A company
can then be forced out of business because they won't be able
to sell any products to raise the money to comply. The rules
are so complex and vague that the FDA can selectively target
any company it chooses, even those attempting to comply in
good faith.
The FDA is doing this under the pretense of improved consumer
safety. Consumer safety could readily be guaranteed by simply
having all companies test their final products for purity and
potency. Instead of this simple approach the FDA has gone to
the extreme of burdening the dietary supplement industry with
regulations in excess of the drug industry! Supplements are
foods, not drugs. The food industry couldn't begin to comply
with these FDA rules, even though food contamination is far
more dangerous to health than dietary supplements.
The FDA intends to phase this rule in over the next three
years. This means that within five years half the industry and
many of the health options individuals rely on will either be
gone or significantly more expensive.
Even more chilling is that forces within the dietary
supplement industry itself are in no small part responsible
for this FDA final rule.
Trade Groups and their Big Companies Turn on America
The Natural Products Association (formerly the National
Nutritional Food Association - NNFA) and the Council for
Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have been instrumental in forcing
these drug-like rules on dietary supplements. These globalist
organizations are selling out America, destroying American
jobs, undermining the U.S. Constitution, and working in
conjunction with pharmaceutical companies to usher in Codex
and the New World Order. Consumers of dietary supplements
should learn who these companies are before buying their
products and helping to inadvertently fund the destruction of
health freedom in this country.
When DSHEA was passed in 1994 part of that law required the
FDA to establish current good manufacturing practices (CGMPs)
for the dietary supplement industry. During a period of FDA
outreach to the industry the FDA was surprised to learn that
CRN and NPA were in favor of drug- like CGMPs for the dietary
supplement industry. These trade groups, working closely with
Senators Orin Hatch (R-UT) and Tom Harkin (D-IA), have
intentionally taken the supplement industry down a slippery
slope. It is noteworthy that Hatch takes in more money from
Big Pharma than he does from dietary supplement companies. Not
only is Hatch a big supporter of the Medicare Part D drug rip
off of Americans he has saved Big Pharma billions by
protecting them from generic competition, as he is currently
attempting to do with his legislation for new biologic drugs.
Hatch also has a son working for NPA and another son that
lobbies for NPA and the dietary supplement industry. When
Hatch leaves the Senate he will be first in line for a six or
seven figure Big Pharma salary.
The CRN has been taken over by multinational drug and food
companies. Key players are the nutritional divisions of Bayer,
BASF, Cargill, Monsanto, Wyeth, and Archer Daniels Midland.
Nutrition companies that participate are in most cases owned
by pharmaceutical companies, heavily invested in
pharmaceutical companies, or jockeying for position in the
international market as part of the New World Order. Key names
include Mannatech, Shaklee, Herbalife, GNLD International, The
Vitamin Shoppe, and GNC. These companies are glad to eliminate
competition from small companies and start up ventures.
Carrying on the general theme of Big Pharma ownership and a
globalist agenda are the companies that control the NPA. One
need only look at the new NPA China board to understand who
these key players are. Jarrow Formulas, Now Foods, GNC, and
Herbalife top the list. At the end of 2006 Jarrow and Now
helped lead the charge with Senators Hatch and Harkin to
burden the dietary supplement industry with bizarre Adverse
Event Reporting legislation (AER) which insisted that dietary
supplement companies keep extensive records on any type of
consumer complaint. Aspects of this AER law are now
implemented in the FDA final rule on CGMPs. Of course, NPA was
quick to offer expensive training to its members to
indoctrinate them into how to comply with the rules that NPA,
working on behalf of the FDA, just forced on its own members.
Are their member companies really this stupid? Or are they all
working together? I would recommend that any NPA member that
believes itself to be a true American company that values our
constitution immediately withdraw from NPA membership -
consumers will be looking to see who you are.
The picture is now crystal clear for any person who cares to
look. Numerous dietary supplement companies are anti-American
and actively selling out our country and our constitution,
working hand-in-glove with the FDA and Big Pharma. The
majority of such companies can be found as members of CRN and
NPA. It will be up to the American consumer to save the
dietary industry from itself and preserve their own access to
safe and effective natural health remedies. This is a
relatively simple task. Quit buying products from or quit
being a distributor in these fascist organizations. Support
the small companies that are the backbone of America,
otherwise they will soon be extinct.
Update on S.1082 Threat to Dietary Supplements
Many of you have been following the extreme threat to dietary
supplements posed by S.1082. Similar legislation has now
cleared the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is headed
for the floor of the House in the next week or two. The House
version of this bill now contains the "food and food
ingredients" language that the FDA can use to apply
drug-related risk/benefit analysis to dietary supplements and
have them removed from the market at their whim.
It is noteworthy that both CRN and NPA have posted on their
websites information stating that S.1082 is not a threat to
dietary supplements. Both organizations are flat out wrong.
They cite a colloquy by Hatch, Harkin, Kennedy, and Enzi as
their evidence. This colloquy was a direct result of our
grassroots campaign to alert the American consumer to this
major threat. In no way does this colloquy protect dietary
supplements. UNTIL THE LANGUAGE IN THE BILL IS CHANGED THE
THREAT EXISTS AND IS VERY REAL.
CRN and NPA also tell their members that the Codex initiative
to scare consumers into thinking that dietary supplements are
unsafe above miniscule amounts and need to be regulated by
international laws is also no big deal. It is clear that CRN
and NPA, again working hand-in- glove with the FDA, are a
major part of the problem and are actively engaged in
forwarding the globalist agenda of the New World Order. While
pretending to represent the dietary supplement industry these
organizations are in fact shooting the industry in the back
and undermining health options for Americans.
The FDA is Out of Control
The FDA is a tyrannical organization that is now emboldened
and completely out of control. It is not surprising that the
FDA is seeking to eliminate competition to Big Pharma, they
have been doing that for much of the past century. What is
surprising is that they are openly stating in their final rule
a plan that directly eliminates small businesses from
existence. This fascist organization believes itself to be
above the rule of law and is actively working against America
and the rights of Americans. It must be stopped.
=A9 2007 Truth in Wellness, LLC - All Rights Reserved
Sign Up For Free E-Mail Alerts
E-Mails are used strictly for NWVs alerts, not for sale
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------=
-----
Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources, is
a Board- Certified Clinical Nutritionist and
nationally-renowned health expert, radio personality, and
educator. He is the author of Mastering Leptin, The Leptin
Diet, and Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal
of America.
Richards encourages individuals to take charge of their
health, stand up for their health rights, and not blindly
succumb to propaganda from the vested-interests who profit
from keeping Americans sick. As founder of Wellness Resources,
Inc. of Minneapolis, MN, an independently-owned fine-quality
dietary supplement company since 1985, he has personally
developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade nutritional formulas.
www.wellnessresources.com
FREE Subscription to Byron's Health Newsletter, click here.
E-mail: byron@truthinwellness.com
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------=
-----
Life Extension Foundation: http://www.lef.org/