[R-G] FDA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ELIMINATE VITAMIN COMPANIES

[Nicholas Morcinek]

Already happening in Canada...

My own small organic farm business is being pressured by Health Canada (FDA
equivalent). We produce over 1000 different herbal products, and have been
in business for over 25 years.

We provide good wages and full benefits to ALL employees in a non sexist
cooperative rural environment. We have 12 full time staff and the lowest
paid employee is myself at $8.00 per hour for a 38 hour week. The average
for everyone else is $14.00 per hour.

We have now been told by Health Canada that we must register every product
that we make with them, at a proposed annual fee of about $1000.00 for EACH
product!!

i.e. one million dollars a year in fees to stay in business, when total
SALES barely exceed $500,000.00 a year.

We support and work in our local community and our products sell for more
than FOUR times what we make... generating over a million dollars a year in
sales and other taxes. Industry Canada says that one job in our primary
production sector generates a sevenfold number of jobs through the rest of
the chain.

We work with dozens of small farmers across Canada, paying a proper and
premium price for the herbs we use. These bureaucratic assholes don't give a
toss about rural communities and ethical small businesses - they only listen
to rich capitalists.

We are fighting these people, but as you know the corrupt judicial system is
not on our side. Revolution may be the only answer :-)

Nicholas

Lilla Watson:
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine,
then let us work together." 

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Better stock up---this is serious...

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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 companys 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 wont 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 couldnt 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, Shacklee, 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.

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How the FDA is Becoming a Drug Company, Part 2, 6-14-07
How the FDA is Becoming a Drug Company, Part 1, 6-14-07
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