government ban on natural cures?

[merryBe]

http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Dietary-Supplement-Safety-Act-of-2010.htm

I've been saying for years as soon as efficatious natural cures are recognized drug companies will seek to ban them and make their own, adding an isotope or 2...and now the legislation proves that's exactly where they are headed.

kiss your milk thistle goodbye...big brother is looking out for you......not

mb

[cuteus]

On another note ..."there was nothing preventing the drug company from charging me 300K for a cure that didn't work. that's 300,000 dollars when all was said and done.
and the "cure" didn't work. "  
  The drug company offers you information with the percentage of people that might be cured, the type of determinants that might influence whether you attain RVR and SVR. They have to charge you, much like Jenny Craig would charge you for their services and  items that claim to help you loose excess wt and keep it off. The fact that some do not achieve the goal does not make the charges unfair and deceiving. Some of us do achieve the cure and some of us do loose the excess wt. I can't see any company that will guarantee your money back if you don't get better or keep your wt off. It is unrealistic.

[cuteus]

if this law is going to restrict those that are selling their own personal cures or recipes for cures online to whomever believe in them, I can see how it might protect the vulnerable and gullible,or possibly the general population, but it will affect the companies that are already under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act regulation Those that are already complying with labeling, dosage, and ingredients' regulations.
Giving FDA free range to interfere anytime they apply their wide classification  and interpretation of "adulteration" and "reformulation" "adverse"  thereby overwhelming the supplement companies with tons of forms, paperwork that they will have to complete and gather each time they decide to add an antioxidant to an existing supplement, (ie Vitamin C now with Acerola), as well as severe penalties, seems like the govt's way of exercising unneeded control of  these companies. It allows FDA to focus in petty items in order to overwhelm, overwork, and stress them financially   each time they have to provide studies that show Acerola is safe to use.
This Bill will not address all those side ads that we see on this and other health related websites, where there are claims of health benefits by using this or another product, or recipe. Sites that are distributors for the supplement manufactured  in another country. I don't see the need for the mentioned amendments in McAin's Bill, it does seem to be aimed to overwhelm reputable supplement companies in the USA, therefore placing undue demands that might eventually  make it difficult to continue manufacturing and selling in this country.  These amendments in this bill go too far, in my view.  I am contacting my representatives and oppose it. This is just MY opinion and view of this Bill as it reads at present.

[Trish77]

"'ll take an educated populace willing to take responsibility for their behaviour to a law any day - but how common is that nowadays. "

I'd take good behaviour from humanity over a law any day myself. It also takes a populace with a common integrity that has the same moral code.  That ain't going to happen.  Laws protect from the unprincipled and the unscrupulous.  Unfortunately, they live amongst us.  If people are going to get angry, get angry at those who cause laws to be made.

[GSDgirl]

If I remember correctly something like this was talked about a few years ago.  I remember being POed about it.  Don't have time right now to look it up right now but will shortly.

[desrt]

I'll take an educated populace willing to take responsibility for their behaviour to a law any day - but how common is that nowadays.

Everyone wants the protection of the FDA, CDC, etc, but they also want the freedom to take whatever they want AND to sue everyone in sight for any side effects.

Please feel free to take anything you want, just don't  cause my healthcare premiums to go up. (Oops, semi-political)

[cuteus]

well, I am tired of the government using legislation instead of education to "protect" me, especially when it means that they will be using my money to do so, apply it however they want without accountability to me on how they use or misuse it. Legislation to force me to wear seatbelts, and ticketing me for not doing so; if I am stupid enough to know that it saves lives and choose not to use them, so be it. Legislation to ban plastic baby bottles, instead of recalling and educating folks to avoid them, and this before they have proof that there is a real danger. Legislation to force fast food rest. to post nutritional data and to warn of the dangers of wrong foods, because some individuals stuffed their faces and got 200 extra lbs on them! It is the shift from personal responsibility to blaming everyone else for our lack of common sense. I for one don't feel that the govt needs to protect me from vitamin B supplements.  They already restrict the claims they can place on the supplements, and companies are complying, the reputable ones. I doubt that this legislation's wording  will include what people like Matt can claim.  I think that it will affect the reputable companies only. Matt and people like him can still sell their snake oil without restrictions because they are not organized and incorporated.  I say no to that bill. Thank you for posting this.