FYI: FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies

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Sat Nam,

 

The following was forwarded to me by a friend:

 

FDA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ELIMINATE VITAMIN COMPANIES

By Byron J. Richards, CCN

June 27, 2007

 

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 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.

 

 

Copyright 2007 Truth in Wellness, LLC -

 

(There are four more pages to the article, but this gives you the

basics.)

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Is there anything we can do to stop this, perhaps a petition we could sign against it? Thanks for the info, Silvia

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Sat Nam,

I have not felt a need for dietary supplements since I began doing Sat Kriya everyday for 31 minutes about four years ago. My skin looks clear and youthful, my energy is the highest it has ever been, my glands secrete properly, my body is aligned and in balance without chiropractic adjustments and I do not get diseases that require medication—although my body purges junk food once in awhile.

 

Can you see the pharmacy industries reaction when people turn to Yoga and self healing? They may make it legally difficult to teach yoga classes. But can they ban our books? Can they monitor our breath? Interrupt our kriyas? I think not. Our most powerful weapon is our personal practice.

 

Loving Blessings,

Guruprem Kaur

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Sat Nam, Guruprem Kaur,

 

It's wonderful that you have been able to stay healthy & feel so

good just through your practice of kundalini yoga. Now, how about

some understanding & compassion for those of us, myself included,

who are not, on our own journeys, at the same place you're at?

 

We can't afford, either in our personal spiritual selves or as part

of a global community, to have the attitude " If it doesn't affect me

directly right here & now, I can't be bothered with it. "

 

Loving Blessings,

Zydeco ChaCha

 

 

Kundalini-Yoga , Guruprem Kaur <guruprem

wrote:

 

Sat Nam,

I have not felt a need for dietary supplements since I began doing

Sat Kriya everyday for 31 minutes about four years ago. My skin

looks clear and youthful, my energy is the highest it has ever been,

my glands secrete properly, my body is aligned and in balance

without chiropractic adjustments and I do not get diseases that

require medication‹although my body purges junk food once in awhile.

 

Can you see the pharmacy industries reaction when people turn to

Yoga and self healing? They may make it legally difficult to teach

yoga classes. But can they ban our books? Can they monitor our

breath? Interrupt our kriyas? I think not. Our most powerful weapon

is our personal practice.

 

Loving Blessings,

Guruprem Kaur

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Sat Nam Zydeco,

At this point, what else can we truly do for ourselves but our personal

practice?

 

Four years ago I was suppressed by a husband that I loved and built a yogic

business with. He abused and negated everything about me and blamed it on

me. I was so confused that I believed everything he said and did not

believe‹I could not chant without crying, my health took a steep decline,

and I cut off relationships with my friends‹How could I tell anyone?

 

All that time Yogiji encouraged me to keep the marriage going and not give

up on him. Finally, my beloved beat me up and kicked me out of the house,

admitting he was doing so because he had been abusive. A year later he did

the same thing to his own daughter. She now lives with me and has her own

recooperating to do body mind and soul.

 

I emerged from that traumatized state by doing the kriyas Yogiji gave me‹So

Darshan Chakra Kriya 5 minutes to 2 and a half hours per day and Sat Kriya

for 31 minutes a day ongoing. At the same time I was being kicked out, I

learned that my daughter had received brain damage in a car accident. Yogiji

told me to send all my energy to her, but my energy was a mess. So I called

on the ten Gurus to heal her. I still do that meditation every day. Even

though she has been healed, I include healing for my step daughter, a dear

neighbor and world issues that need healing.

 

After four years of intense prayer and meditation, initially fighting my

illusions and attachments in a battle of tears and screeches, I discovered

who I am. It is enabling me to write a book Yogiji gave me on the deeper

yogic meaning of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, working on profound levels with

the Gurus and saints.

 

Spiritual practice is not a pill or supplement nor done to get high. It is

hard work, commitment, a battleground against karmas that medicines and

supplements cover up but do not heal.

 

The book I am writing will help many people that we could otherwise never

reach. Yogiji said that a thousand people will contest it but it will come

through pure. A thousand is nothing compared to the millions that wil be

inspired to work on themselves and discover their destinies.

 

May you be blessed to make such a journey.

 

Loving Blessings,

Guruprem Kaur

[Guest guest]

> Now, how about

> some understanding & compassion for those of us, myself included,

> who are not, on our own journeys, at the same place you're at?

>

> Loving Blessings,

> Zydeco ChaCha

>

 

Dear Zydeco:

 

I can assure you that Guruprem Kaur has understanding and compassion

for you and others who have a difficult health time. Her point was

however that it is possible to overcome health difficulties with a

disciplined practice of kundalini yoga. She is not the only one who

has overcome health difficulties in this group.

 

She was showing a different way to see the current battle between the

FDA (and I would add the American Medical Association) and the

alternative medicine world. This different point of view does not show

lack of compassion it shows instead that this confrontation is just a

transition that will disappear of its own accord at some point in the

future.

 

Continue to let your voice heard and that you want the vitamins to be

available.

 

Best wishes and many blessings,

Awtar Singh

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Sat Nam,

 

I do not take issue with the fact that Guruprem Kaur & others have

overcome health difficulties with a disciplined practice of

kundalini yoga. I have also. My point is that for some of us, and

maybe for Guruprem Kaur herself at some point in the future,

kundalini yoga by itself is not enough. I am thankful that KY has

been an effective tool in my life to turn health issues around when

nothing else has worked. Yes, KY, by itself. I am also thankful

for the vitamin & herb supplements I take, along with essential

oils, massage therapy, foods specific to my dosha, & physical

therapy exercises, which are working in conjunction with KY to

improve other health issues. In those cases, KY alone is not

enough. It would be so much easier in so many ways if it was. But

that is not reality for me nor for many people I know.

 

 

 

> >

>

> Dear Zydeco:

>

> I can assure you that Guruprem Kaur has understanding and

compassion

> for you and others who have a difficult health time. Her point was

> however that it is possible to overcome health difficulties with a

> disciplined practice of kundalini yoga. She is not the only one who

> has overcome health difficulties in this group.

>

> She was showing a different way to see the current battle between

the

> FDA (and I would add the American Medical Association) and the

> alternative medicine world. This different point of view does not

show

> lack of compassion it shows instead that this confrontation is

just a

> transition that will disappear of its own accord at some point in

the

> future.

>

> Continue to let your voice heard and that you want the vitamins to

be

> available.

>

> Best wishes and many blessings,

> Awtar Singh

>

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Sat Nam,

 

In Kundalini-Yoga , Guruprem Kaur <guruprem

wrote:

 

> Spiritual practice is not a pill or supplement nor done to get

high. It is hard work, commitment, a battleground against karmas

that medicines and supplements cover up but do not heal.

 

Medicines & supplements are horses of two different colors. I am

referring only to supplements; vitamins & herbs. It may be your

experience that they do not heal. It has been mine that they do.

So perhaps it would be more accurate for you to include the

phrase " in my experience " in your sentence.

 

 

>The book I am writing will help many people that we could otherwise

never reach. Yogiji said that a thousand people will contest it but

it will come through pure. A thousand is nothing compared to the

millions that wil be inspired to work on themselves and discover

their destinies.

 

>May you be blessed to make such a journey.

 

 

Can you step outside of yourself & hear what you've written through

ears other than your own & understand that your words sound

judgmental & condescending to me? You have no idea who I am, what

my spiritual practice is, how long I've been practicing, how

intensely, what difficulties I've overcome, where I've started from,

how far I've traveled, what my journey has been. And yet you wish

that I may be blessed to make the journey of working on myself &

discovering my destiny. As though I haven't. As though this is not

what my life has been about up to this point.

 

Compassion is more than just practicing a technology or writing a

book & holding it up for the whole world to see: " Here! This will

enable you to be who you are destined to be! "

 

We extrapolate & project so much from our own experiences, from the

way our own minds process our experiences, & layer all of that onto

our interactions with other people without stopping to listen &

truly hear what they are saying. We judge others as being less

spiritually evolved if they're not ready to buy into the solution

that we're offering. We " bless " them in the hope that someday they

will truly see the light (ie., the light we've seen).

 

 

 

Loving Blessings,

Guruprem Kaur

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Sat Nam Zydeco,

That was cool how you ended this post with my closing Blessing, as though I

had written it. For it is something I would have written, even about myself.

It is human.

 

Thank you,

Guruprem Kaur