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FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 by: Byron Richards
(NewsTarget) 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."
(http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fr07625a.html)
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 (
http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=2108) . 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 record keeping will be required, including all customer
complaints and returns for any reason! This is utterly draconian and an
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 (http://www.crnusa.org/who_omc.html). 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
(http://www.naturalproductsassoc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_China) .
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
(http://www.naturalproductsassoc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_Board) .
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 (http://www.wellnessresources.com/health_freedom.php) . 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 minuscule 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
(http://www.emord.com/events/speeches/fda_violation.htm) . It must be stopped.
About the author
Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources
(www.wellnessresources.com), is a Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist, a
charter professional member of the International and American Associations of
Clinical Nutritionists (IAACN) since 1991. He is a nationally-renowned health
expert, radio personality, and educator. He is the creator and pioneer of The
Leptin Diet� and has been a featured expert consultant on Fox News Live, CBS
Infinity television (national syndication), and The Wall Street Journal.
Richards has appeared on hundreds of radio programs throughout the country. He
is the author of Mastering Leptin
(www.wellnessresources.com/products/mastering_leptin.php), The Leptin Diet
(www.wellnessresources.com/Books/leptin_diet.php), and Fight for Your Health:
Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America
(www.wellnessresources.com/Books/fight_for_your_health.php).
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 nutraceutical-
quality dietary supplement company since 1985. He has personally developed 75
effective nutritional formulations. (www.wellnessresources.com)
FREE Subscription to Byron's Health Newsletter, click here www.wellnessresources.com/store/newsletter.php
E-mail: byron@wellnessresources.com
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 by: Byron Richards
(NewsTarget) 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."
(http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fr07625a.html)
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 (
http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=2108) . 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 record keeping will be required, including all customer
complaints and returns for any reason! This is utterly draconian and an
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 (http://www.crnusa.org/who_omc.html). 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
(http://www.naturalproductsassoc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_China) .
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
(http://www.naturalproductsassoc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_Board) .
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 (http://www.wellnessresources.com/health_freedom.php) . 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 minuscule 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
(http://www.emord.com/events/speeches/fda_violation.htm) . It must be stopped.
About the author
Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources
(www.wellnessresources.com), is a Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist, a
charter professional member of the International and American Associations of
Clinical Nutritionists (IAACN) since 1991. He is a nationally-renowned health
expert, radio personality, and educator. He is the creator and pioneer of The
Leptin Diet� and has been a featured expert consultant on Fox News Live, CBS
Infinity television (national syndication), and The Wall Street Journal.
Richards has appeared on hundreds of radio programs throughout the country. He
is the author of Mastering Leptin
(www.wellnessresources.com/products/mastering_leptin.php), The Leptin Diet
(www.wellnessresources.com/Books/leptin_diet.php), and Fight for Your Health:
Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America
(www.wellnessresources.com/Books/fight_for_your_health.php).
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 nutraceutical-
quality dietary supplement company since 1985. He has personally developed 75
effective nutritional formulations. (www.wellnessresources.com)
FREE Subscription to Byron's Health Newsletter, click here www.wellnessresources.com/store/newsletter.php
E-mail: byron@wellnessresources.com