Archive for 01 Food ebook – Page 5
Action Item: http://tinyurl.com/FDApowerabuse
Index:
Introduction
FDA NDI Regulation
Dr. Rima on the Raids
Action Items
Armed Govt Agents Raid Amish Dairies, Raw Food Co-ops and Health Food Stores… As the Raids Intensify, our Health and Food Freedom is Threatened… Meanwhile, the Increases in Factory “Phude” (Looks Like Food, But It Ain’t) Disease Exposes the Failures of the Federalization of Food Safety!
During 2007 the Natural Solutions Foundation warned the American public that Ted Kennedy’s last gift of power to the Federal bureaucracy, the so-called FDA Modernization Act of 2007 (what we call the FDA Enabling Act) would seriously threaten our Health and Food Freedom.
Raw Milk Advocates at the Capitol, May 2011
9.8.11 Update: FDA Extends Comment Period for its NDI Guidance for 60 days
“ROCKVILLE, Md.—FDA extended the comment period for its New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) Draft Guidance by 60 days to Dec. 2, 2011. The extension came one month after five industry trade organizations requested FDA to extend the comment period by 45 days…” http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/news/2011/09/fda-extends-ndi-draft-guidance-comment-period-by.aspx
Although we fought hard to make sure language was kept in that bill “exempting” dietary supplements, the DSHEA Exemption, (and you sent over 150,000 emails in one weekend!) we were not holding out much hope that this massive increase in FDA power would not be used against our freedom of choice… despite the fact the the law is clear and the statute had specific exemption language. We were specially worried about language in the Act that would let FDA ban interstate commerce in any FOOD that had ever been studied for medical use.
That’s right, Congress gave FDA authority to ban any food… why? Indeed, why would Congress believe it had power under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to control what food free Americans grow and use? We leave the answer to such questions to the philosophers and psychiatrists…
Dr. Ron Paul (R – TX): Giving FDA more authority is giving “FDA power to abuse…”
Sure enough, the ink of President Bush’s signature was barely dry when FDA moved to ban the first supplement under the new law. At the behalf of a drug company (they called it a “citizen petition”) FDA banned a form of Vitamin B6 that has been continually available for decades. This form of B6 happens to be the most bioavailable, thus the drug company “studied” it and then decided NOT to market it, but rather seek govt help in banning it!
How did FDA “get around” the DSHEA Exemption? It announced that none of the vitamin companies and advocates objecting to the ban had “proven” that this particular form of B6 had been “sold to supplement the diet” prior to the “grandfathering” cut off date in 1994. The listing of this form of B6 in the “Old Dietary Ingredients” list posted on the FDA website was not to be considered proof anymore! This new regulation threatens every nutrient innovation since 1994… and maybe before!
Threatens All Nutrient Innovations Since 1994!
We warned that the Vitamin B6 precedent would threaten all dietary supplement advances since ’94. Fast-forward to 2011… FDA announces a new guideline on New Dietary Ingredients which takes the B6 precedent and codifies this for all nutrients. Remember, FDA restricts what people can say about nutrients and then uses its new powers to ban those nutrients. This is a Freedom of Speech Issue. Here is what Life Extension says about this:
The FDA has just issued a proposed mandate that will enable the government to ban the most effective dietary supplements you are now taking.
If this proposal is enacted, many fish oil formulas and natural plant extracts will be removed from the market until so-called safety testing is done. The FDA wants each nutrient company to force-feed laboratory animals the human equivalent of up to 240,000 milligrams a day of certain fish oils. This outlandish dose will injure the test animals and give the FDA an excuse to outlaw the supplement.
How can the FDA do this? They are seeking to reclassify the natural supplements you now take as “food additives.” This gives the FDA power to mandate outrageous safety thresholds that have no relationship to the scientifically validated doses of nutrients you take every day.
Why are they doing this? Because these natural products work too well. Take curcumin as an example. It has been shown to inhibit a deadly transcription factor in cells called nuclear factor-kappa beta (NF-kB) that is responsible for immune system regulation. Over-expression of NF-kB is linked with tumor cells that resist normal cell growth and maturation, as well as inflammation.
Pharmaceutical companies want to own the exclusive rights to these kinds of plant extracts that are freely sold on the market today. They don’t want consumers to be able to obtain these biological benefits in low-cost supplements. Instead, they want to patent synthetic versions as high-priced prescription drugs!
We know what the FDA wants to do… stop us from making what they and their drug company friends think are “bad” decisions… What is the law, however? Here is what the Supreme Court said in Thompson v Western States (535 U.S. 357 – 2002):
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last – not first – resort… We have previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to prevent members of the public from making bad decisions with the information… Even if the Government did argue that it had an interest in preventing misleading advertisements, this interest could be satisfied by the far less restrictive alternative of requiring each … to be labeled with a warning that the [product] had not undergone FDA testing and that its risks were unknown…”
Once again, the FDA is abusing power Congress wrongfully granted to this oppressive agency! Once again, our Health and Food Freedoms are under assault! We initiated a new Action Item to reply to this latest FDA attack on health and food and urge everyone to “take it viral” and flood decision makers with your concerns! In addition, we have several other current relevant Action Items we urge you to use daily!
Dr. Rima Responds to the Health and Food Raids
WE TOLD YOU SO!!! NOW ARE YOU READY TO GET SERIOUS???? Let’s face it. We need a staff devoted to keeping the attack, and the attackers, straight.
Food. Nukes. GMOs. Vaccines. Compulsory Drugging. Medical Privacy. Chipping. TSA/DHS Radiation Exposure. FDA Raids.
The list goes on and on
“No! No! Not ANOTHER one!” some people say — as one person did, in fact, say, during the chat session at www.HealthFreedomPortal.org during this week’s edition of the Dr. Rima Reports,
“Yes, Yes, and there will be more. Many more, I am sorry to tell you.”
You see, if you watch the Globalist Agenda, http://youtu.be/_gWmVtn5JsA, you’ll hear the plan. If you have been one of those folks who denies that it could be real, or happen, or be anything other than a “CONSPIRACY THEORY” despite the data that turns it into a “CONSPIRACY FACT”, then perhaps, perhaps, this assualt by State and Federal agencies working in concert at 3 locations on one morning, might just, possibly, be enough to shake the scales from your eyes and get you
Incensed
Activated
Communicating
Enraged
HorrifiedAnd ready to take back – yes, it has been lost, but can be reclaimed – your
Freedom
Constitutional Rights
Health
Food
Ownership of Your Body
Dignity
Control of the Government
Amendments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XIII…That’s right, all of them. The Constitution of the US was shredded by the Rawsome Food Co-op raids. What is left? Rags and tatters of the hemp parchment upon which it was written.
Had enough? Believe us now? OK
Here is the plan
1. Take the following Action Items Every Day for Every Member of Your Family. Every Day
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And/or
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OK. That’s it. No guns, mud, freezing conditions at Valley Forge. Just Freedom Mice and Freedom Money. How very 21st Century! How very essential. Too much trouble? Not enough interest? Really? With your DNA and your future at stake?
I know you’ll do the right thing because you have read this far. If you don’t, along with enough others, you have chosen to enslave yourself.
slave – [sleyv] noun, verb, slaved, slav·ing. noun
1.a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
2.a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: a slave to a drug.
3.a drudge: a housekeeping slave.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/slave
NO MORE POWER TO THE FDA!
TELL THEM: “NO! NO! NO!”
http://tinyurl.com/FDApowerabuse
http://tinyurl.com/RawMilkFreedom
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6822#Action
(Support Ron Paul’s RAW MILK BILL)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5708#Action
(Hold Big Pharma and FDA Responsible for Vaccine Harms)
http://tinyurl.com/NoFoodControl
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421#Action
(Do Not Fund Food Control Law! – very important for food/vitamin rights)
http://tinyurl.com/StateFood
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5622#Action
(State sovereignty for Food Freedom and Real Food Safety)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049
(SAY NO TO GMOs)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5731#Action
(SAY NO TO NUCLEAR POWER)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5448#Action
(LEAVE OUR VITAMINS ALONE)
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DSHEA & NUTRIENTS STILL UNDER ATTACK!
http://tinyurl.com/nofoodcontrol
This Action Item Updated To Include New Attacks!
Updated Foundation Counsel’s Blog Report:
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2011/04/free-speech-about-science-act-hr-1364.html
Latest FDA Ploy:
Using the “Food Control Law”
to Ban Advanced Dietary Supplements!
Dr. Paul G. King, PhD, during a discussion with Dr. Rima Laibow and myself earlier this week , reminded us that the comment period for the FDA “new dietary ingredient” rule [promulgated not under DSHEA, but rather, under what we call the Food Control Act of 2010] ends October 5th. Since the new rule is rather complex, it may take a bit of time to analyze and fully respond. But that is just what we plan to do: analyze and expose. We’d like your participation in that process, so “stay tuned” as we develop a strategy to stop this latest assault on our Health and Food Freedoms.
Dr. Rima reminds us of what happened in 2007 when FDA tried to push through its infamous CAM Guidance. The FDA comment system collapsed after your 198,000 comments (698,000 tried to comment!) and the guidance was never finalized. That Action Item “went viral” and your Push Back prevailed.
My concern is that this new rule “codifies” the abuse of power that FDA got away with in the matter of pyradoxamine, B6, the vitamin it recently banned at the request of a drug company. Dr. King reminds me that, if that’s all the new rule did, it would be bad, but, he says, it does much, much more… and is much, much worse!
I have to agree with him; the FDA seeks to use the so-called FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 to trump the dietary supplement freedoms we won in 1994 with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). So we propose to facilitate a discussion among health and food freedom advocates about a pooling views and analyses to strengthen the response to the proposed rule. Our existing No Food Control Action Item has been updated to include this bad FDA regulation.
You never wavered in your (and our!) opposition to the Food Control Law and now we won’t waver in our opposition to its implementation!
Last week we reported on the Nutraingredients USA article that warned us about a new threat to Health and Food Freedom in Congress: the Durbin Dietary Supplement Labeling Bill – http://tinyurl.com/6bpuz7x
According to the article: “The bill would… require manufacturers to register dietary supplement products [with] the FDA, require labels to disclose the known risks of ingredients and display a mandatory warning if the product contains a dietary ingredient that may cause potentially serious adverse events. The bill also calls for labels to display the batch number, something already adopted as standard”
The article quotes leading dietary supplement lawyer Jonathan Emord, calling the bill a “classic example of regulatory overkill…. The FDA has full regulatory power to prevent the sale of adulterated and misbranded foods and dietary supplements… By introducing new powers when old ones are more than sufficient, [Durbin] invites abuses, including more burden and cost on an industry that is already overwhelmed by the burden and cost of the GMPs and, now, the [sic] Food Safety Modernization Act…”
POWER IS THE GOAL: “Sen Durbin said that his goal “is to take the decision about how a product will be regulated out of the hands of the manufacturer and put it in the hands of the FDA where it belongs.”
For More About Our Analysis of the Attacks on Nutrients please see Gen. Bert’s First Risk Assessment, updated: Threats to Health and Food Freedom – http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=9145
Subsequent to this disturbing report, we learned of a new FDA dietary supplement regulation under the new Food Control Law, the infamous S.510 of the 111th Congress.
As Natural News reports: “…nearly all vitamin and supplement ingredients could soon be banned under the FDA’s new NDI [New Dietary Ingredient] rules because very few supplement ingredients can be conclusively shown to have been widely used BEFORE [the “grandfathering” date of] 1994… Through this clever trick with NDI rules, the FDA can now position itself as the gatekeeper for all supplement approvals. Far from merely being a requirement to “notify” the FDA of the use of new ingredients, NDI rules essentially subject supplements to approval from the FDA.
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/032912_FDA_dietary_supplements.html#ixzz1RNe6SrP4
Similarly, the Natural Products Association has this to say:
We believe the draft guidance does not match Congress’s clear intent that products made from ingredients on the market prior to DSHEA should remain on the market. The FDA is asking for far more from the industry to prove that an ingredient was on the market before 1994 than most makers can probably produce. That was not the intent of DSHEA. These requirements will reduce ingredients meeting the established grandfathered status to a regrettably small number.
http://www.npainfo.org/index.php?src=news&srctype=detail&category=pressreleases2011&refno=330
Our Action Item has been updated to help educate decision makers about the new NDI rule as well as Sen. Durbin’s bill: please contact your congress-critters daily about this the other health and food freedom issues that matter!
http://tinyurl.com/nofoodcontrol
And while you are at it… Please support Dr. Ron Paul’s Raw Milk Interstate Commerce Freedom Bill, HR.1830: http://tinyurl.com/rawmilkfreedom
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New Video: A Weaponized World – a Warning from Gen. Bert and Dr. Rima
Weaponized e. Coli Found to Contain Plague DNA
They tell us the “Super bug E. coli 0104:H” is terrorizing Germany, causing otherwise healthy people to develop Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome (HUS) in which their kidneys fail, their red blood cells explode and then, tragically, they die.
Germ sleuths and clinicians alike have been even more horrified than the average Spanish cucumber eater (the vegetable pinned with the blame for the lethal outbreak). The general public just wants the disaster to go away. The doctors want to know why, what and, now, WHO is responsible.
E. coli is found in the guts of every mammal and is generally harmless. In fact, it is present in massive quantities: half of the volume of the normal bowel excretion is made up of their huge numbers. But when a good germ goes wrong, it can cause disease in the host or anyone who picks it up through contamination or lack of hygiene.
And E. coli 0104:H4 has gone very, very wrong, with, it would appear, quite a bit of help from its friends.
Mike Adams, the intrepid Health Ranger, revealed to the English speaking world that this extraordinarily aggressive E. coli (from a family of bugs which are normally passive and non-aggressive in the extreme) had been systematically genetically altered through laboratory manipulation, to be totally resistant to 8 classes of antibiotics.
Natural News Article Link: http://www.naturalnews.com/032623_ecoli_fresh_vegetables.html
“European health authorities are leaping at the opportunity to spread fear about organic foods while ignoring the obvious true cause of the contamination in the first place — the widespread abuse of antibiotics in animal farming operations… The e.coli blame game has become a circus of musical chairs. First, they blamed the Spaniards as a form of retaliation for Spain’s resistance to accepting GMOs. This act drove Spanish farmers into bankruptcy through a savage campaign of rumor-mongering. After ravaging the Spanish vegetable farmers, they began to randomly instill widespread fear about a variety of vegetables: First it was cucumbers, then lettuce and then finally tomatoes. And now, the blame has come full circle and is now being cast upon organic sprout growers in Germany!”
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032623_ecoli_fresh_vegetables.html#ixzz1OjU2qjYz
He pointed out, quite correctly, that without sustained and careful laboratory manipulation there would be no way for this organism to acquire total resistance to these drugs since the drugs are not used in agriculture and the bacteria would not encounter all eight of them in nature.
The only reasonable conclusion is that colonies of normal E. coli had been intentionally, systematically exposed to each of the antibiotics in turn and the surviving colonies had been propagated and then exposed to the next antibiotic. The surviving germs were now resistant to both of the antibiotics to which they had been exposed. The process was repeated until a super bug was created which would not yield to any of the antibiotics that doctors would customarily use to treat the infection.
This is the only rational conclusion to which the evidence points.
Of course, by who, and why, the altered organism was deployed has not yet been established. A psychotic graduate student with aspirations to be a mass murderer? A corporate ploy to discredit independent agriculture and force the total industrialization of food to keep it “safe” from contamination (that is, the organized intentional contamination of all food by the folks who make the agrochemicals and GMOs which allow more of them to poison us and the drugs that you take when you get sick from the food)? A dedicated globalist loyally pursuing the “great culling” of us “useless eaters”?
So what we knew was that a forced natural selection had been used to create killer super-super bugs. Now we know that genetic manipulation of the GMO sort has been used, as well. Truly, a weaponized bug if there ever was one…
Helge Karch, the director of the Robert Koch Institute (Germany’s CDC). who heads a consulting laboratory at the Münster University Hospital in Germany says that he has discovered that the super killer contains DNA from E. coli, which is what he expected. It also contains (unexpectedly for those who don’t expect such genocidal manipulations) DNA from the organism that causes plague, responsible for wiping out a quarter of Europe’s population during the Black Death (1348-1351).
Please pay attention here: we are talking about the Black Death. Seriously.
Bubonic plague is caused by Yersinia pestis and is one of the most feared of all disorders. So when Dr. Karch blithely assured the German population that there is little danger of an outbreak of plague from this organism, he is clearly whistling through his Spanish cucumber.
Although we all love to be reassured, there is no one on planet Earth who can reassure us that we are not already facing a new plague. This one, however, rather than resulting from an unplanned, but wildly toxic combination of rats, lice and history, would be the intentional outcome of an unnatural selection process and a high-tech genetic manipulation to create a death bug. A weaponized bug.
Deny the genocidal agenda at your peril. I, for one, can see no reasonable option to the conclusion that the mad [wo]men at the helm of the realm are consummate murderers, killing randomly for their own unspeakable ends.
A bright note, however: there is no way in which any organism can become resistant to nano silver. None. Faced with the presence of a plague, a weaponized super plague, an ordinary infection or a genocidal assault through organisms of death, I want nano silver on hand, lots of it. Nano-silver is a nutrient that supports normal immune system function.
Ah, yes, nano silver was declared illegal in Europe on January 1, 2011. Can’t use an illegal substance, now can we. The good people of Europe are expected to be good citizens of the New World Order and… just die.
Civil disobedience, anyone? Or perhaps the people are ready to fight for their silver!
I get mine, which is called “Silver Sol” at www.Nutronix.com/NaturalSolutions. You should, too.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima – www.DrRima.net
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation
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Yes, it’s always nice when members of Congress respond to net-roots Push Back and introduce bills that would offer further protection for our Health and Food Freedom of Speech. And we are sure the latest such bill, H.R. 1364, entitled the Free Speech About Science Act, introduced in the House of Representatives April 2011 by Congressmen Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Jared Polis (D-CO) is such a bill. We’ve been calling for further legal protection for years. HR. 1364 ought to be amended to truly protect health free speech.
The Natural Solutions Foundation’s Health and Food Freedom proposals, linked through the Health and Food Freedom of Speech Action Item, at http://tinyurl.com/healthfreespeech are detailed and include more than the current bill. Nonetheless, we certainly urge you to use the above Action Item to support that bill and urge its improvement.
Our gripe is aimed not at all those good folk who turn to Congress for protection, but at the Congress-critters who vote to protect us (or not) only to do nothing when the FDA thumbs its collective nose at Congress and the People by ignoring the protective laws Congress has adopted. As one astute observer, Diane Miller, JD noted, the bill “continually uses the term ‘legitimate scientific research’ as the threshold for ‘permission to speak’.” This, of course, restricts substantiation to officially approved science… the ghost of Lysenko-ism and more govt-sanctioned voodoo “science.”
Frankly, we thought we had won the battle over being allowed to communicate truthfully about health and food in Congress and in the Supreme Court.
We thought that’s what DSHEA was supposed to have done in 1994 with its Third Party Literature Provisions. Those provisions were further supported by the 1997 Labeling Commission which stated,
“Historically, FDA has considered literature used directly in connection with the sale of a product to be “labeling” for the product. Section 5 of DSHEA exempts certain publications used in connection with the sale of dietary supplements from being defined as “labeling.” The exemption applies to “a publication, including an article, a chapter in a book, or an official abstract of a peer-reviewed scientific publication…”
And again we thought this matter had been determined by the Supreme Court in the 2002 landmark Thompson v Western States case, wherein the Court opined:
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last – not first – resort. *** We have previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to prevent members of the public from making [even] bad decisions with the information….”
Finally even the FDA “enabling act” of 2007 specifically exempted DSHEA products from enhanced FDA oversight.
But repeatedly FDA has ignored these legal restrictions, prompting Dr Ron Paul to remark that, when the Congress gives more power to FDA, the agency always engages in an “abuse of power…” A couple years ago it ignored the 2007 restrictions to exceed its power and ban the interstate sale of certain vitamins. Just last year it sought to ban the entire Ear Candling industry and asked the Courts to recognize NO right of Americans to make their own dietary choices.
This is an agency run-amok. An agency that is so incompetent that about half of the dangerous drugs (including vaccines) it approves must be withdrawn from the market, or strictly curtailed, within 5 years of approval, thus proving that the Public has become the final stage in drug company research and development. All the while, supporting drug company exemptions from legal liability for the horrendous harm they cause the Public.
Meanwhile, what we call Sen. Leahy’s Criminalization of Food and Speech bill, which claims to “increase criminal penalties for certain knowing and intentional violations relating to food…” but applies only to SPEECH, has reared its ugly head again, as S.216.
This onerous bill has cleared the Senate without hearings, by “unanimous consent” [where were you when Freedom needed you, Senators Paul and Lee?] The operative language of the bill is:
Any person who violates subsection (a), (b), (c), or (k) of section 301 with respect to any food–(A) knowingly and intentionally to defraud or mislead; and (B) with conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury, shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.’
Yes, Congress, can pass new laws to protect us from its agents — or subject us to even more harassment.
But better, DIVEST THE FDA OF FOOD AUTHORITY! Let it stick to messing up dangerous drugs and deadly vaccines… FREE US from this bureaucratic nightmare that leads to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths every year!
And that’s our gripe about a bill that’s been introduced with the best intent, but with hardly enough clout to do the job of restoring our Health and Food Freedoms. To do that, please go to to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org for more information and more Action Items!