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Copyright by Maureen K. Salaman and Jonathan V. Wright, M. D. This article,

which appeared in the August/September issue of Townsend Letter For Doctors,

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WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM FDA? DISTORTING THE " PURE FOOD " (AND OTHER) LAWS

SINCE 1906 by Maureen K. Salaman & Jonathan V. Wright, M. D. Severe criticisms

have been leveled against FDA since its inception as the Bureau of Chemistry in

1906. Harvey W. Wiley, M. D., the first head of the Bureau, resigned in disgust

in 1912. " Dr. Wiley resigned because the fundamental principles of the Pure Food

Law have been strangled; because he has been powerless to punish the

manufacturers of misbranded and adulterated drugs. " -Rocky Mountain News, March

21, 1912

 

He felt so strongly about what he witnessed he wrote a book: _The History of a

Crime Against the Food Law: The Amazing Story of the National Food and Drugs Law

Intended to Protect the Health of the People, Perverted to Protect Adulteration

of Foods and Drugs_

Dr. Wiley knew the value of whole foods; knew the repercussions of " junk " foods;

knew even back then what the future held. Just think--we've been eating these

chemicals for 65 years! No wonder our medical establishment specializes in

crisis medicine--our food and health is in crisis! He describes the dilemma most

aptly in his treatise on depravity: " If the Bureau of Chemistry had been

permitted to enforce the law as it was written and as it tried to do, what would

have been the condition now (1929)? No food product in our country would have

any trace of benzoic acid, sulphurous acid or sulphites... no soft drink would

contain caffeine... no bleached flour would enter interstate commerce... Our

food and drugs would be wholly without any form of adulteration. The health of

our people would be vastly improved and their life greatly extended... The

manufacturers of our food supply would (provide) whole ground, unrefined cereal

flours and meals. The resistance of our people to infectious

diseases would be greatly increased by a vastly improved and more wholesome

diet... The cause of a wholesome diet would not have been put back for fifty or

a hundred years... and this History of a Crime would never have been written. "

-Harvey W. Wiley, M. D., _History of a

Crime_, 1929, pgs. 401-402.

 

In 1927 the Bureau of Chemistry became the Food, Drug and Insecticide

Administration; then in 1930 became the Food and Drug Administration. Criticism

and charges of fraud continued among its ranks and

among government overseers. " The activities of... so-called health food

lecturers have increasingly engaged our attention...(we are fighting) the

good fight against dried vegetables, mineral mixtures, vitamins and similar

products. "

 

-Dr. George Larrick, FDA Commissioner, Minutes of the Proprietary

Association Convention, 1949, White Sulphur Springs, Virginia (as reported by

Omar V. Garrison in _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970, pg. 30) " The

Committee wishes to express its particular concern with the current state of

FDA- industry relationships... these are found not to be based upon common

understanding, trust and respect, but rather upon fear, questioning of basic

motives, and lack of opportunity for discussion before drastic action is taken

on violations, many of them minor and not related to health hazards... there is

a distinct feeling within the present Committee that FDA has used

recommendations of the earlier Committee to obtain considerably

expanded staff and budget, but (FDA has ignored) important recommendations

which.. the expanded staff and budget would be able to achieve. "

 

-1962 report of the Second Citizens Advisory Committee to FDA (appointed by U.

S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare) " The Food and Drug

Administration is charged by Congress with an onerous responsibility--that of

protecting the nation's health. Instead of shouldering this heavy

responsibility, we find the agency engaged in bizarre games of cops and robbers.

Instead of a guardian of the national health, we find an agency which is

police-oriented, chiefly concerned with prosecutions and convictions, totally

indifferent to individuals' rights, and bent on using snooping gear to pry and

invade citizens' right of privacy. " If the Food and Drug Administration would

spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins and milk

substitutes and a little more on the large manufacturers of... dangerous

drugs... the public would be better

served. "

 

-Senator Edward V. Long, 1965 hearing of the Senate Subcommitt on

Adminsitrative Practice and Procedure. " People think the FDA is protecting

them--it isn't. What the FDA is doing and what people think it's doing are as

different as night and day. " Dr. Herbert Ley, Commissioner of the FDA, _San

Francisco Chronicle_, January 2, 1970 TODAY'S JUDGES AGREE Over FDA's 65-year

history, numerous lawsuits and litigation have focused on their practices and

policies. Judges involved in these lawsuits often comment on the outlandish

logic used by FDA. " The FDA's broad definition... subverts Congressional

purpose... " " ... it defies common sense to say that a substance can be a food

additive when there is no (other) food to which it is added... " " Distorts the

plain meaning of the provision... " " The only justification for the

Alice-in-Wonderland approach is to allow the FDA to make an end run around the

statutory scheme... " " Contrary to the intent of Congress... "

 

-Judges of the U. S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit in the _Traco

Laboratories_ case, January 1993 " It apparently is FDA's view that if a

company makes a claim that milk helps prevent rickets, milk suddenly becomes a

drug. "

 

-Federal Judge Lowell Jensen, District Court, San Francisco, in the

_Nutricology_ case, September 23, 1993 FDA'S FRIENDS, THE DRUG COMPANIES As a

stockholder, would you tolerate blatant bias? If you knew your corporation was

favoring one group over another, jeopardizing the lives and health of your

family and friends, would you put up with it? Even after countless hearings,

reports witnesses and lawsuits, FDA continues to favor and forgive an industry

with a long, long history of death and disability. Follow along as we listened

to those who know firsthand. Senator Long: " Did you notice a tendency (by FDA)

to spend a great deal of their time going after a little manufacturer rather

than some of the large ones? " Witness: " I have definitely noticed that... when a

small company is purchased by a large company, the needling attacks... stop. "

Senator Long: " The merchandise becomes alright then? " Witness: " Becomes

sacrosanct. "

 

-1966 Senate Subcommittee hearings as reported in Omar Garrison's _The

Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York City, 1970, pg. 64 " (It is) not our (FDA)

policy to jeopardize the financial interests of the pharmaceutical companies. "

 

-FDA Commissioner Charles C. Edwards in testimony before the House

Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, 1970, as reported in " Who Blocks

Testing of Anti-Cancer Agent, " _Alameda (California) Times Star_, August 3, 1970

" The FDA...(is) actively hostile against the manufacture, sale and distribution

of vitamins and mineral as food or food supplements. They are out to get the

health food industry and drive the health food stores out of business. And they

are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice. "

 

-Senator William Proxmire, _National Health Federation Bulletin_, April

1974 " I never have and never will approve a new drug to an individual, but

only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited finances. "

-Dr. Richard J. Crout, Director, Bureau of Drugs, FDA, quoted in the

_Spotlight_, January 18, 1982 " ... the task force considered many issues in its

deliberations including: to ensure that the existence of dietary supplements on

the market does not act as disincentive for drug

development... "

 

-_FDA Dietary Supplements Task Force Final Report_, pgs. 2 and 71, June 1992,

released June 1993 " ... pay careful attention to what is happening (with dietary

supplements) in the legislative arena... if these efforts are successful, there

could be created a class of products to compete with approved drugs that are

subject to less regulation than approved drugs... the establishment of a

separate regulatory category for supplements could undercut exclusively rights

enjoyed by holders of approved drug applications. "

 

-David Adams, FDA Deputy commissioner for Policy before the Drug Information

Association Annual Meeting, July 12, 1993, _D-C-A Tan Sheet 11_, July 19, 1993

" During the eight years I was an investigator with the Texas Attorney General's

Office, I had numerous occasions to work with the FDA on cases involving

potential health fraud. I repeatedly saw cases against large corporations... go

unchallenged... instead, the agency chose (to pursue) cases against alternative

health care providers and minor companies... Chinese herbalists, health food

stores, and chiropractors were among their favorite targets... "

 

-Marion Moss, former investigator, Texas Attorney General's office, writing in

_New Times_, Seattle, Washington, 1992 A LITTLE

INCEST " Since 1965, federal executive orders and implementing regulations have

prohibited employees from engaging in outside activities that are not compatible

with the full and proper discharge of the duties and responsibilities of their

government employment. The prohibition includes activities that involve the

acceptance of a fee or anything of value in circumstances in which acceptance

may result in or create the appearance of conflict of interest or that may

result in the appearance using public office for private gain. " (United States

General Accounting Office, GAO/GGD-92-34 Employee Conduct Standards, February

1992).

 

Despite this, FDA has a documented history of conflict of interest. " A General

Accounting Office (GAO) study of FDA in 1975 revealed that

150 FDA officials owned stock in the companies they were supposed to

regulate. "

 

-Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville,

Ontario, L0G 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 22 " In 1964, Congressman Melvin Laird

(Wisconsin), demanded from FDA data concerning the number of FDA officials who

left the agency to take their next job with FDA-regulated industry. FDA

responded that one in ten (83 of 613) who left FDA between 1959 and 1964 had

done so. "

 

-Omar Garrison, _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970 " A study conducted

by the US Congress in 1969 revealed that 37 of 49 top FDA officials who left the

agency moved into high corporate positions with the large companies they had

regulated. "

 

-Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville,

Ontario, L0G 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 22 PROTECTORS OF PUBLIC HEALTH? While FDA

attacks and condemns purveyors of alternative nutritional therapies, it

overlooks and allows dangerous toxic chemicals to be ingested by the citizens.

What do you think would happen if 14,100 people reported that a certain product

caused them to behave in an unusual manner and that 500 people had attempted to

kill themselves after using it? If you assumed the product would be removed from

the market, you would be wrong. As of June, 1991, 16,899 cases of adverse

reactions from the use of Prozac, a commonly- prescribed anti-depressant, have

been reported, with over 100 lawsuits filed against Eli Lilly, the manufacturer

of the drug. The drug continues to this day to be prescribed widely. Chris

Wallace (ABC News): " How often do you take legal action against a drug company

for misleading advertising? " Mr. Feather (FDA): " There has not

been legal action through

the courts since about 1974. " Wallace: " Fifteen years? " Feather: " Yes. "

Wallace: " You have ...30,000 cases a year of advertising, and you haven't taken

one case of legal action in 15 years? " Feather: " That's right. "

 

-Primetime Live transcript, ABC News, Show #110, October 15, 1989 " In 1963,

(FDA) conducted a prosecution against Dr. Steven Drovic who had produced...

Krebiozen... a non-toxic substance... useful... in the treatment of cancer. The

trial lasted 289 days, the jury heard 288 witnesses... the jury found the

defendant not guilty of 240 charges which FDA had brought against them... "

 

-Martin J. Walker, _Dirty Medicine_, Slingshot Publications, BM Box

8314, London, WCIN 3XX, UK, pgs. 17-18 " If there is any plausible excuse for the

Gestapo-like tactics used in a raid on a Kent (Washington) alternative medicine

clinic last week, it had better be forthcoming and fast. King County police

officers, drafted by agents in the Food and Drug Administration, kicked in the

door of (the) clinic with guns drawn. There are serious questions not only about

the raid's tactics but its motivation. It must be kept in mind that (the clinic)

had filed suit against the FDA... "

 

-Lead editorial, Seattle-Post Intelligencer, May 11, 1992 " A study by UCLA

researchers published in _Annals of Internal Medicine_ in

1992 found that 92% of 109 drug company advertisement violated FDA

regulations. Sixty-one percent were inaccurate, misleading and even

dangerous. "

 

-_Wall Street Journal_, June 1 and July 31, 1992 " The problem of misleading

advertisements is real... injury or death may occur because physicians have been

persuaded to prescribe (inappropriate) products... " -FDA Commissioner David

Kessler, in _Annals of Internal Medicine_, commenting on the above UCLA study

[Editor's note: Despite the words of Dr. Kessler, to date, no legal action (or

raids) have occurred in the cases noted by _Annals_ and Dr. Kessler himself.]

" V. E. Irons went to prison for a year after FDA accused him of making

'unscientific claims that his food supplements were beneficial to health. "

 

 

-Martin J. Walker, _Dirty Medicine_,Slingshot Publications, BM Box 8314, London,

WCIN 3XX, UK, pgs. 17-18 " Mrs. Sissy Harrington-McGill (owner, Solid Gold Pet

Foods, El Cajon, California) in 1990 was sentences to 179 days in prison and

fined $10,000, in a case brought by FDA for allegedly mislabeling natural dog

food. "

 

-_FDA vs The People of the United States_, documented on pg. 11 of a

47-page report available from the Jonathan Wright Legal Defense Fund, Box 368,

Tacoma, Washington, 98401 LIES, DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS Need we say more?

" Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their Cytochemistry

Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a (May 30,1972) letter to

(congressman Louis Frey, Jr.) that high officials of the FDA, AMA and ACS

(American Cancer Society), were deliberately falsifying

information, literally lying... and in other ways thwarting potential cancer

cures to which they were opposed. "

 

-Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville,

Ontario, L0G 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 22 " During Congressional hearings on

vitamins, FDA introduced a supposedly " independent " poll entitled _A Study of

Health Practices and Opinions " conducted by 'National Analysis' of Philadelphia

to show that American citizens are misinformed about vitamins. Every question in

the " independent poll " was written by FDA officials. "

 

-Omar Garrison, _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970

" Despite the government's (FDA) multimillion dollar prosecution which

included falsified testimony, later confessed by the government, the four

defendants (including Dr. Stephen Druovic and Dr. Andrew Ivy) were

acquitted... the jury went to extraordinary lengths to say it believed

Krebiozen had merit and should be tested, based on the positive,

well-documented testimony it had heard. " _David Rorvik, " A Defence of

Unorthodoxy " , _Harper's Magazine_, June 1976 " The Food and Drug Administration

report, _Unsubstantiated Claims and Documented Health Hazards in the Dietary

Supplement Marketplace_, released

July 29, 1993 at a House Subcommittee hearing on dietary supplements, should be

immediately withdrawn and FDA should apologize to the Congress and the public

for its release. This false and misleading document is so riddled with

inaccuracies that it lacks any evidentiary value and raises serious questions

about the motives of those who are responsible for its preparation. " " FDA has

knowingly submitted false information to Congress... it has willfully violated

the presumption of accuracy and impartiality traditionally granted the agency.

The report conclusively proves FDA's animosity to dietary supplements. " " The

Clinton Administration must take immediate steps to discipline those who have

participated in the preparation and submission of this misleading document... "

 

-_False and Misleading: Unsubstantiated Claims and Documented Health Hazards in

the Dietary Supplement Marketplace_, A Staff Report to Senator Orin G. Hatch,

October 21, 1993, pg. 1 DID SOMEONE MENTION SAFETY? Do you realize the FDA does

no testing of pharmaceuticals? They are wholly dependent on the word of the

manufacturer, who does the preliminary testing and may or may not give FDA all

the facts. When a pharmaceutical company lies about testing, and it results in

deaths and disability, the company may be fined and ordered to do community

service. It amounts to a slap on the hand. The company is free to continue its

business unencumbered by the laws that are supposed to protect us. " Safety

should be the overriding concern for FDA in regulating dietary supplement... "

 

-FDA Commissioner David Kessler, _Dietary Supplements Task

Force Final Report_, May 1992, pg. 1, released May 1993 " GAO (General Accounting

Office) found that of the 198 drugs approved by FDA between 1976 and 1985...102

(or 51.5%) had serious postapproval risks... the serious postapproval

risks...(included) heart failure, myocardial infarction, anaphylaxis,

respiratory depression and arrest, seizures, kidney and liver failure, severe

blood disorders, birth defects and fetal toxicity and blindness. "

 

-FDA Drug Review: Postapproval Risks 1976-1985, GAO/PEMD 90-15, pg. 3 Annual

Deaths Approved Drugs

(1)................60,000 - 140,000 Food Contamination

(2)...........................9,100 Aspirin

(3)......................................................90 Compared All

vitamins (4). .............................................0 Uncontaminated

amino acids (4)....................0 Commercial herbs

(4)......................................0

 

1. Classen, et al., " Surveillance of Adverse Drug Events, " JAMA, 1991

2. Centers for Disease Control

3. FDA Fact Sheet, July 1971

4. American Association f Poison Control Centers (data for years

1983-1990 as published in _American Journal of Emergency Medicine_) " With

respect to vitamin and mineral products, the primary recommendation of the Task

Force was that FDA should establish through rulemaking for each vitamin and

mineral a safe daily intake level. "

 

-FDA Commissioner David Kessler, Dietary Supplements Task Force Final Report,

May 1992, released May 1993 SO, SAFETY'S NOT AN ISSUE?... LET'S PERSECUTE THOSE

VITAMIN QUACKS ANYWAY! By now, you might have the impression that FDA's sole

purpose is to guarantee the survival and profit of pharmaceutical companies by

reducing the health food supplement industry to a pile of ashes. The following

will show you just how low the FDA will go. " My first encounter with (FDA

agent) George Daughters was in San Francisco in...1944, where I was lecturing at

the Women's Club. During intermission I

went into the supply room and found George Daughters holding one of my

sons--then about eight--on his lap...(he was asking him) 'How much money does

your daddy earn? Does your daddy take these vitamins? Where do you go to school?

At what hotel do your mommy and daddy live?'... later I learned that Daughters

was one of the team who arranged to ransack my hotel room... "

 

-Lelord Kordel, in an epilogue to _The Dictacrats_, Omar Garrison, ARC

Books, New York, 1970 " FDA agents accompanied by a U. S. Marshall arrested

naturopathic doctor William Abt in the middle of his Detroit public lecture on

nutrition. They explained to reporters that Dr. Abt 'sold vitamins, herbs and

seasoning.' They told the media that they had followed Dr. Abt for a year making

concealed recordings of his lectures. "

 

-_Detroit Free Press_, March 10, 1962 " The use by FDA of other agencies in their

war against vitamins is illustrated by the example of the Cardiac Society, a

non-profit group of several hundred heart patients formed in the 1960's. The

group of several hundred heart patients formed in he 1960's. The group

promoted... vitamin E... When the Society started a buyer's club for vitamin E,

FDA came down on them... the Postal Service...(returned)... all mail addressed

to the Society... stamped 'Fraudulent. "

 

-Martin J. Walker, _Dirty Medicine_, Slingshot Publications, BM Box

8314, London WCIN, 3XX, U. K. " ... access was also given to a file kept

under lock and key in the desk of the head of the fraud division of the

California Food and Drug Branch, Mike Bogumill. This file revealed there had

been a special meeting... in May 1984... in Sacramento... Present at this

meeting were: California Food and Drug Branch, U. S. FDA, Board of Medical

Quality Assurance (California medical licensing board), U. S. Postal Service,

Federal Trade Commission, National Council Against Health Fraud... an effort to

launch attacks against chiropractors, nutritionists, vitamin companies...

chelation therapy, homeopathy, naturopathy, alternative cancer remedies, and so

on. "

 

-P. J. Lisa, _The Great Medical Monopoly Wars_, International Institute of

Natural Health Sciences_, Box 5550, Huntington Beach, CA 92615, pgs. 12 and 14

" The Pharmaceutical Advertising Council (PAC) and the United States Food and

Drug Administration have just announced a unique program... to warn the public

about the dangers of quack medical products... "

 

-From an October 22, 1984 letter signed jointly by Frank Young, FDA

Commissioner and Roger O'Neill, president of PAC, on PAC/FDA letterhead " ...

attached is a list of companies... who have donated money to the PAC/FDA

anti-quackery program... " Beecham Laboratories Merck Sharpe and Dohme Bristol

Meyers Company Organon, Inc. Burroughs Wellcome Co. Pennwalt Co.

Carter Wallace Inc. The Proprietary Association A. H. Robbins

Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. Rover Group Janssen

Pharmaceutical Sandoz Jeffrey Martin Inc. Schering Corp. Johnson & Johnson

Squibb Knoll Pharmaceutical Sterling Drug, Inc. Lederle Laboratories Stuart

Pharmaceuticals McNeil Company Syntex Corporation Warner Lambert Company

 

-from a November 15, 1985 letter on PAC/FDA letterhead signed by John

Chusid, coordinators, PAC/FDA anti-quackery program HUMANITARIANISM AT THE FDA

Despite compelling scientific evidence, despite decades of usage in other

countries, despite countless successes and few failures, the FDA still continues

to deny the public access to nutritional therapies, and persecute and imprison

qualified physicians who choose to use them. In 1993, the FDA

finally did accept the claim of folic acid for prevention of neural tube

defects; too late for millions of children born with these preventable birth

defects. In the meantime, our friends and loved ones die of other

preventable and treatable diseases, thanks to the FDA's campaign against natural

substances. " Women who take over-the counter multivitamin pills early in

pregnancy sharply reduce the risk of having a baby with (neural tube defect

which) affect 4000 babies a year. Neural tube defects include anaecephaly

(missing brain)... and spina bifida... " -_New York Times_, November 24, 1989,

pg. 1, (reporting on an article published in the _Journal of the American

Medical Association_, same date " Several studies, conducted in the United

Kingdom and the United States, have shown that multivitamin use is associated

with

decreased risk of neural tube defects, including both anacephaly and spina

bifida. "

 

-_Nutrition Reviews_, 1990;48 (1):15, (January) " This study has established the

specific role of folic acid in the prevention of neural tube defects. "

 

-Medical Research Council (UK), Vitamin Study Research Group, _Lancet_,

338(8760):131- 137, 20 July 1991 " The Centers for Disease Control has

recommended daily vitamin supplements containing folic acid for women who have

given birth to a child with neural tube defect. The guidelines were released

because of... evidence... that folic acid can reduce the possibility (of

recurrent) neural tube defect. "

 

-_Medical Tribune_ 1991,:32(17):4 (August 22, 1992) " The Food and Drug

Administration is proposing note to authorize the use of the label and labelling

of foods, including dietary supplements, of health claims relating to an

association between folic acid and reduction of risk of neural tube defects. "

 

-Proposed Rules published in the _Federal Register_, November 27,

1991. " The Food and Drug Administration said... it will require all makers

of bread and grains to add folic acid to products labeled 'enriched' in an

attempt to reduce birth defects in the United States. " -_The New York

Times_, October 10, 1993 " Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand

(anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients

while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's

use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their

doctors were allowed to testify. " -Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus

Books, Box 327, Queensvile, Ontario LOG 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 21 " On July 17,

1985 agents of the FDA and Harris County Sheriffs Office entered (Dr. Stanislaw

Burzynski's) clinic and seized 11 filing cabinets containing past and current

medical records... despite many apparent successes in the treatment of usually

incurable cancers, (Burzynski's) antineoplaston therapy remains unrecognized by

the AMA, the National Cancer

Society... as of March 1992, FDA had not brought charges... nor returned the

clinic property... "

 

-Meg Smith, The Burzynsky Controversy in the United States and Canada, _Canadian

Journal of Sociology_, 1992; 17(2):133 FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, FDA-STYLE Are you

getting the impression we are living in a medical police state? Freedom in

America includes the right to choose and the right to be informed. FDA is

working very hard to make sure our medical choices are limited to chemicals; and

to ensure this, they are censoring information we need to make intelligent

choices. " Two days before the San Mateo Times (California) was to print a

serialization of nutrition pioneer Lelord Kordel's book, the general manager of

the Times received a call from FDA San Francisco District Director McKay

McKinnon, objecting to the publication. McKinnon explained that FDA was not in

sympathy with Kordel's view on

nutrition. " -Omar Garrison, _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970, pgs.

120-122 The agency requests comments on whether it should consider all

third-party endorsements that imply a nutrient in a food has an effect on a

disease... to be health claims... " (It is illegal to public " health claims "

unless FDA " approves " - editor). " Examples of...(third party) labeling

endorsement programs that FDA has considered to be implied health claims include

programs... sponsored by the American College of Nutrition, the American Heart

Association, the American Medical Association (campaign against cholesterol),

and the American Medical Women's Association... " (FDA hearby proposes to make

endorsements by even these professional groups illegal... unless FDA approves! -

editor)

 

-FDA Proposed Rules, _Federal Register_, November 27, 1991, pgs. 60, 554-60.

" In December 1991, Dr. John Vanderveen, Director of the Division of Nutrition at

FDA Office of Nutrition and Food Science called the managing editor of The

Journal of the American College of Nutrition inquiring about an article critical

of the FA. He asked that a copy of the article be sent to him, and material

favorable to the FDA be published. He was told it was not the Journal's policy

to make articles

available prior to publication. Vanderveen then threatened the Journal's

editor and its executive director Mildred Seelig, M. D., M. P. H., stating

that if the Journal did not follow FA's recommendation, FA 'would come down very

hard on the American College of Nutrition.' " -_Food Chemical News, April 277,

1992 " It was in 1936 that I copyrighted _Cancer, Its Cause and Control_. They

(FDA) forced me to spend a whole year in jail... When I heard everything was

ready to put out a third edition, they notified me in no uncertain terms that

'Unless you stop... we will snatch you... and do a lobotomy on you.' "

 

-Emerson Hartman, _Cancer News Journal_, 1977 THE ULTIMATE TYRANNY " When books

are burned, the ultimate tyranny has happened. "

 

-John Steinbeck " On August 22, 1956, FDA supervised the burning of all Dr.

Wilhelm Reich's scientific books, journals, pamphlets. and 'all documents'

concerning his scientific experiments as part of an injunction obtained against

him because FDA disagreed with his theories. "

 

-Aubrey Westlake, M. D., _The Pattern of Health_, Shambala Publications,

Berkeley, California, 1973, pgs. 59-62, (backed up by a variety of other

historical sources) WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM THIS AGENCY NOW?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Thanks, Misty.

 

And now the FDA wants to rule all food supplements with this same twisted

philosophy (CODEX). It is enough to " gag a maggot " !

 

Walt Stoll, MD

 

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> Copyright by Maureen K. Salaman and Jonathan V. Wright, M. D. This

article, which appeared in the August/September issue of Townsend Letter For

Doctors, pgs. 968-971, was uploaded into Compuserve's Holistic Health Forum

with permission of the authors. All rights reserved. It is reproduced here

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> WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM FDA? DISTORTING THE " PURE FOOD " (AND OTHER)

LAWS SINCE 1906 by Maureen K. Salaman & Jonathan V. Wright, M. D. Severe

criticisms have been leveled against FDA since its inception as the Bureau

of Chemistry in 1906. Harvey W. Wiley, M. D., the first head of the Bureau,

resigned in disgust in 1912. " Dr. Wiley resigned because the fundamental

principles of the Pure Food Law have been strangled; because he has been

powerless to punish the manufacturers of misbranded and adulterated

drugs. " -Rocky Mountain News, March 21, 1912

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> He felt so strongly about what he witnessed he wrote a book: _The History

of a Crime Against the Food Law: The Amazing Story of the National Food and

Drugs Law Intended to Protect the Health of the People, Perverted to Protect

Adulteration of Foods and Drugs_

> Dr. Wiley knew the value of whole foods; knew the repercussions of " junk "

foods; knew even back then what the future held. Just think--we've been

eating these chemicals for 65 years! No wonder our medical establishment

specializes in crisis medicine--our food and health is in crisis! He

describes the dilemma most aptly in his treatise on depravity: " If the

Bureau of Chemistry had been permitted to enforce the law as it was written

and as it tried to do, what would have been the condition now (1929)? No

food product in our country would have any trace of benzoic acid, sulphurous

acid or sulphites... no soft drink would contain caffeine... no bleached

flour would enter interstate commerce... Our food and drugs would be wholly

without any form of adulteration. The health of our people would be vastly

improved and their life greatly extended... The manufacturers of our food

supply would (provide) whole ground, unrefined cereal flours and meals. The

resistance of our people to infectious

> diseases would be greatly increased by a vastly improved and more

wholesome diet... The cause of a wholesome diet would not have been put back

for fifty or a hundred years... and this History of a Crime would never have

been written. " -Harvey W. Wiley, M. D., _History of a

> Crime_, 1929, pgs. 401-402.

>

> In 1927 the Bureau of Chemistry became the Food, Drug and Insecticide

Administration; then in 1930 became the Food and Drug Administration.

Criticism and charges of fraud continued among its ranks and

> among government overseers. " The activities of... so-called health food

> lecturers have increasingly engaged our attention...(we are fighting) the

> good fight against dried vegetables, mineral mixtures, vitamins and

similar products. "

>

> -Dr. George Larrick, FDA Commissioner, Minutes of the Proprietary

> Association Convention, 1949, White Sulphur Springs, Virginia (as reported

by Omar V. Garrison in _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970, pg. 30)

" The Committee wishes to express its particular concern with the current

state of FDA- industry relationships... these are found not to be based upon

common understanding, trust and respect, but rather upon fear, questioning

of basic motives, and lack of opportunity for discussion before drastic

action is taken on violations, many of them minor and not related to health

hazards... there is a distinct feeling within the present Committee that FDA

has used recommendations of the earlier Committee to obtain considerably

> expanded staff and budget, but (FDA has ignored) important recommendations

which.. the expanded staff and budget would be able to achieve. "

>

> -1962 report of the Second Citizens Advisory Committee to FDA (appointed

by U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare) " The Food and Drug

Administration is charged by Congress with an onerous responsibility--that

of protecting the nation's health. Instead of shouldering this heavy

responsibility, we find the agency engaged in bizarre games of cops and

robbers. Instead of a guardian of the national health, we find an agency

which is police-oriented, chiefly concerned with prosecutions and

convictions, totally indifferent to individuals' rights, and bent on using

snooping gear to pry and invade citizens' right of privacy. " If the Food and

Drug Administration would spend a little less time and effort on small

manufacturers of vitamins and milk substitutes and a little more on the

large manufacturers of... dangerous drugs... the public would be better

> served. "

>

> -Senator Edward V. Long, 1965 hearing of the Senate Subcommitt on

> Adminsitrative Practice and Procedure. " People think the FDA is protecting

them--it isn't. What the FDA is doing and what people think it's doing are

as different as night and day. " Dr. Herbert Ley, Commissioner of the FDA,

_San Francisco Chronicle_, January 2, 1970 TODAY'S JUDGES AGREE Over FDA's

65-year history, numerous lawsuits and litigation have focused on their

practices and policies. Judges involved in these lawsuits often comment on

the outlandish logic used by FDA. " The FDA's broad definition... subverts

Congressional purpose... " " ... it defies common sense to say that a

substance can be a food additive when there is no (other) food to which it

is added... " " Distorts the plain meaning of the provision... " " The only

justification for the Alice-in-Wonderland approach is to allow the FDA to

make an end run around the statutory scheme... " " Contrary to the intent of

Congress... "

>

> -Judges of the U. S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit in the _Traco

> Laboratories_ case, January 1993 " It apparently is FDA's view that if a

> company makes a claim that milk helps prevent rickets, milk suddenly

becomes a drug. "

>

> -Federal Judge Lowell Jensen, District Court, San Francisco, in the

> _Nutricology_ case, September 23, 1993 FDA'S FRIENDS, THE DRUG COMPANIES

As a stockholder, would you tolerate blatant bias? If you knew your

corporation was favoring one group over another, jeopardizing the lives and

health of your family and friends, would you put up with it? Even after

countless hearings, reports witnesses and lawsuits, FDA continues to favor

and forgive an industry with a long, long history of death and disability.

Follow along as we listened to those who know firsthand. Senator Long: " Did

you notice a tendency (by FDA) to spend a great deal of their time going

after a little manufacturer rather than some of the large ones? " Witness: " I

have definitely noticed that... when a small company is purchased by a large

company, the needling attacks... stop. " Senator Long: " The merchandise

becomes alright then? " Witness: " Becomes sacrosanct. "

>

> -1966 Senate Subcommittee hearings as reported in Omar Garrison's _The

Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York City, 1970, pg. 64 " (It is) not our (FDA)

policy to jeopardize the financial interests of the pharmaceutical

companies. "

>

> -FDA Commissioner Charles C. Edwards in testimony before the House

> Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, 1970, as reported in " Who

Blocks Testing of Anti-Cancer Agent, " _Alameda (California) Times Star_,

August 3, 1970 " The FDA...(is) actively hostile against the manufacture,

sale and distribution of vitamins and mineral as food or food supplements.

They are out to get the health food industry and drive the health food

stores out of business. And they are trying to do this out of active

hostility and prejudice. "

>

> -Senator William Proxmire, _National Health Federation Bulletin_, April

> 1974 " I never have and never will approve a new drug to an individual, but

> only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited finances. "

> -Dr. Richard J. Crout, Director, Bureau of Drugs, FDA, quoted in the

> _Spotlight_, January 18, 1982 " ... the task force considered many issues

in its deliberations including: to ensure that the existence of dietary

supplements on the market does not act as disincentive for drug

> development... "

>

> -_FDA Dietary Supplements Task Force Final Report_, pgs. 2 and 71, June

1992, released June 1993 " ... pay careful attention to what is happening

(with dietary supplements) in the legislative arena... if these efforts are

successful, there could be created a class of products to compete with

approved drugs that are subject to less regulation than approved drugs...

the establishment of a separate regulatory category for supplements could

undercut exclusively rights enjoyed by holders of approved drug

applications. "

>

> -David Adams, FDA Deputy commissioner for Policy before the Drug

Information Association Annual Meeting, July 12, 1993, _D-C-A Tan Sheet 11_,

July 19, 1993 " During the eight years I was an investigator with the Texas

Attorney General's Office, I had numerous occasions to work with the FDA on

cases involving potential health fraud. I repeatedly saw cases against large

corporations... go unchallenged... instead, the agency chose (to pursue)

cases against alternative health care providers and minor companies...

Chinese herbalists, health food stores, and chiropractors were among their

favorite targets... "

>

> -Marion Moss, former investigator, Texas Attorney General's office,

writing in _New Times_, Seattle, Washington, 1992 A LITTLE

> INCEST " Since 1965, federal executive orders and implementing regulations

have prohibited employees from engaging in outside activities that are not

compatible with the full and proper discharge of the duties and

responsibilities of their government employment. The prohibition includes

activities that involve the acceptance of a fee or anything of value in

circumstances in which acceptance may result in or create the appearance of

conflict of interest or that may result in the appearance using public

office for private gain. " (United States General Accounting Office,

GAO/GGD-92-34 Employee Conduct Standards, February 1992).

>

> Despite this, FDA has a documented history of conflict of interest. " A

General Accounting Office (GAO) study of FDA in 1975 revealed that

> 150 FDA officials owned stock in the companies they were supposed to

> regulate. "

>

> -Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville,

Ontario, L0G 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 22 " In 1964, Congressman Melvin Laird

(Wisconsin), demanded from FDA data concerning the number of FDA officials

who left the agency to take their next job with FDA-regulated industry. FDA

responded that one in ten (83 of 613) who left FDA between 1959 and 1964 had

done so. "

>

> -Omar Garrison, _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970 " A study

conducted by the US Congress in 1969 revealed that 37 of 49 top FDA

officials who left the agency moved into high corporate positions with the

large companies they had regulated. "

>

> -Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville,

Ontario, L0G 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 22 PROTECTORS OF PUBLIC HEALTH? While

FDA attacks and condemns purveyors of alternative nutritional therapies, it

overlooks and allows dangerous toxic chemicals to be ingested by the

citizens. What do you think would happen if 14,100 people reported that a

certain product caused them to behave in an unusual manner and that 500

people had attempted to kill themselves after using it? If you assumed the

product would be removed from the market, you would be wrong. As of June,

1991, 16,899 cases of adverse reactions from the use of Prozac, a commonly-

prescribed anti-depressant, have been reported, with over 100 lawsuits filed

against Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of the drug. The drug continues to this

day to be prescribed widely. Chris Wallace (ABC News): " How often do you

take legal action against a drug company for misleading advertising? " Mr.

Feather (FDA): " There has not

> been legal action through

> the courts since about 1974. " Wallace: " Fifteen years? " Feather: " Yes. "

> Wallace: " You have ...30,000 cases a year of advertising, and you haven't

taken one case of legal action in 15 years? " Feather: " That's right. "

>

> -Primetime Live transcript, ABC News, Show #110, October 15, 1989 " In

1963, (FDA) conducted a prosecution against Dr. Steven Drovic who had

produced... Krebiozen... a non-toxic substance... useful... in the treatment

of cancer. The trial lasted 289 days, the jury heard 288 witnesses... the

jury found the defendant not guilty of 240 charges which FDA had brought

against them... "

>

> -Martin J. Walker, _Dirty Medicine_, Slingshot Publications, BM Box

> 8314, London, WCIN 3XX, UK, pgs. 17-18 " If there is any plausible excuse

for the Gestapo-like tactics used in a raid on a Kent (Washington)

alternative medicine clinic last week, it had better be forthcoming and

fast. King County police officers, drafted by agents in the Food and Drug

Administration, kicked in the door of (the) clinic with guns drawn. There

are serious questions not only about the raid's tactics but its motivation.

It must be kept in mind that (the clinic) had filed suit against the FDA... "

>

> -Lead editorial, Seattle-Post Intelligencer, May 11, 1992 " A study by UCLA

researchers published in _Annals of Internal Medicine_ in

> 1992 found that 92% of 109 drug company advertisement violated FDA

> regulations. Sixty-one percent were inaccurate, misleading and even

> dangerous. "

>

> -_Wall Street Journal_, June 1 and July 31, 1992 " The problem of

misleading advertisements is real... injury or death may occur because

physicians have been persuaded to prescribe (inappropriate)

products... " -FDA Commissioner David Kessler, in _Annals of Internal

Medicine_, commenting on the above UCLA study [Editor's note: Despite the

words of Dr. Kessler, to date, no legal action (or raids) have occurred in

the cases noted by _Annals_ and Dr. Kessler himself.] " V. E. Irons went to

prison for a year after FDA accused him of making 'unscientific claims that

his food supplements were beneficial to health. "

>

>

> -Martin J. Walker, _Dirty Medicine_,Slingshot Publications, BM Box 8314,

London, WCIN 3XX, UK, pgs. 17-18 " Mrs. Sissy Harrington-McGill (owner, Solid

Gold Pet Foods, El Cajon, California) in 1990 was sentences to 179 days in

prison and fined $10,000, in a case brought by FDA for allegedly mislabeling

natural dog food. "

>

> -_FDA vs The People of the United States_, documented on pg. 11 of a

> 47-page report available from the Jonathan Wright Legal Defense Fund, Box

368, Tacoma, Washington, 98401 LIES, DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS Need we say

more? " Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their

Cytochemistry Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a (May

30,1972) letter to (congressman Louis Frey, Jr.) that high officials of the

FDA, AMA and ACS (American Cancer Society), were deliberately falsifying

> information, literally lying... and in other ways thwarting potential

cancer

> cures to which they were opposed. "

>

> -Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville,

Ontario, L0G 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 22 " During Congressional hearings on

vitamins, FDA introduced a supposedly " independent " poll entitled _A Study

of Health Practices and Opinions " conducted by 'National Analysis' of

Philadelphia to show that American citizens are misinformed about vitamins.

Every question in the " independent poll " was written by FDA officials. "

>

> -Omar Garrison, _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970

> " Despite the government's (FDA) multimillion dollar prosecution which

> included falsified testimony, later confessed by the government, the four

> defendants (including Dr. Stephen Druovic and Dr. Andrew Ivy) were

> acquitted... the jury went to extraordinary lengths to say it believed

> Krebiozen had merit and should be tested, based on the positive,

> well-documented testimony it had heard. " _David Rorvik, " A Defence of

> Unorthodoxy " , _Harper's Magazine_, June 1976 " The Food and Drug

Administration report, _Unsubstantiated Claims and Documented Health Hazards

in the Dietary Supplement Marketplace_, released

> July 29, 1993 at a House Subcommittee hearing on dietary supplements,

should be immediately withdrawn and FDA should apologize to the Congress and

the public for its release. This false and misleading document is so riddled

with inaccuracies that it lacks any evidentiary value and raises serious

questions about the motives of those who are responsible for its

preparation. " " FDA has knowingly submitted false information to Congress...

it has willfully violated the presumption of accuracy and impartiality

traditionally granted the agency. The report conclusively proves FDA's

animosity to dietary supplements. " " The Clinton Administration must take

immediate steps to discipline those who have participated in the preparation

and submission of this misleading document... "

>

> -_False and Misleading: Unsubstantiated Claims and Documented Health

Hazards in the Dietary Supplement Marketplace_, A Staff Report to Senator

Orin G. Hatch, October 21, 1993, pg. 1 DID SOMEONE MENTION SAFETY? Do you

realize the FDA does no testing of pharmaceuticals? They are wholly

dependent on the word of the

> manufacturer, who does the preliminary testing and may or may not give FDA

all the facts. When a pharmaceutical company lies about testing, and it

results in deaths and disability, the company may be fined and ordered to do

community service. It amounts to a slap on the hand. The company is free to

continue its business unencumbered by the laws that are supposed to protect

us. " Safety should be the overriding concern for FDA in regulating dietary

supplement... "

>

> -FDA Commissioner David Kessler, _Dietary Supplements Task

> Force Final Report_, May 1992, pg. 1, released May 1993 " GAO (General

Accounting Office) found that of the 198 drugs approved by FDA between 1976

and 1985...102 (or 51.5%) had serious postapproval risks... the serious

postapproval risks...(included) heart failure, myocardial infarction,

anaphylaxis, respiratory depression and arrest, seizures, kidney and liver

failure, severe blood disorders, birth defects and fetal toxicity and

blindness. "

>

> -FDA Drug Review: Postapproval Risks 1976-1985, GAO/PEMD 90-15, pg. 3

Annual Deaths Approved Drugs

> (1)................60,000 - 140,000 Food Contamination

(2)...........................9,100 Aspirin

> (3)......................................................90 Compared To:

All vitamins (4). .............................................0

Uncontaminated amino acids (4)....................0 Commercial herbs

> (4)......................................0

>

> 1. Classen, et al., " Surveillance of Adverse Drug Events, " JAMA, 1991

> 2. Centers for Disease Control

> 3. FDA Fact Sheet, July 1971

> 4. American Association f Poison Control Centers (data for years

> 1983-1990 as published in _American Journal of Emergency Medicine_) " With

respect to vitamin and mineral products, the primary recommendation of the

Task Force was that FDA should establish through rulemaking for each vitamin

and mineral a safe daily intake level. "

>

> -FDA Commissioner David Kessler, Dietary Supplements Task Force Final

Report, May 1992, released May 1993 SO, SAFETY'S NOT AN ISSUE?... LET'S

PERSECUTE THOSE VITAMIN QUACKS ANYWAY! By now, you might have the impression

that FDA's sole purpose is to guarantee the survival and profit of

pharmaceutical companies by reducing the health food supplement industry to

a pile of ashes. The following will show you just how low the FDA will go.

" My first encounter with (FDA agent) George Daughters was in San Francisco

in...1944, where I was lecturing at the Women's Club. During intermission I

> went into the supply room and found George Daughters holding one of my

sons--then about eight--on his lap...(he was asking him) 'How much money

does your daddy earn? Does your daddy take these vitamins? Where do you go

to school? At what hotel do your mommy and daddy live?'... later I learned

that Daughters was one of the team who arranged to ransack my hotel room... "

>

> -Lelord Kordel, in an epilogue to _The Dictacrats_, Omar Garrison, ARC

> Books, New York, 1970 " FDA agents accompanied by a U. S. Marshall arrested

naturopathic doctor William Abt in the middle of his Detroit public lecture

on nutrition. They explained to reporters that Dr. Abt 'sold vitamins, herbs

and seasoning.' They told the media that they had followed Dr. Abt for a

year making concealed recordings of his lectures. "

>

> -_Detroit Free Press_, March 10, 1962 " The use by FDA of other agencies in

their war against vitamins is illustrated by the example of the Cardiac

Society, a non-profit group of several hundred heart patients formed in the

1960's. The group of several hundred heart patients formed in he 1960's. The

group promoted... vitamin E... When the Society started a buyer's club for

vitamin E, FDA came down on them... the Postal Service...(returned)... all

mail addressed to the Society... stamped 'Fraudulent. "

>

> -Martin J. Walker, _Dirty Medicine_, Slingshot Publications, BM Box

> 8314, London WCIN, 3XX, U. K. " ... access was also given to a file kept

> under lock and key in the desk of the head of the fraud division of the

> California Food and Drug Branch, Mike Bogumill. This file revealed there

had been a special meeting... in May 1984... in Sacramento... Present at

this meeting were: California Food and Drug Branch, U. S. FDA, Board of

Medical Quality Assurance (California medical licensing board), U. S. Postal

Service, Federal Trade Commission, National Council Against Health Fraud...

an effort to launch attacks against chiropractors, nutritionists, vitamin

companies... chelation therapy, homeopathy, naturopathy, alternative cancer

remedies, and so on. "

>

> -P. J. Lisa, _The Great Medical Monopoly Wars_, International Institute of

Natural Health Sciences_, Box 5550, Huntington Beach, CA 92615, pgs. 12 and

14 " The Pharmaceutical Advertising Council (PAC) and the United States Food

and Drug Administration have just announced a unique program... to warn the

public about the dangers of quack medical products... "

>

> -From an October 22, 1984 letter signed jointly by Frank Young, FDA

> Commissioner and Roger O'Neill, president of PAC, on PAC/FDA letterhead

" ... attached is a list of companies... who have donated money to the

PAC/FDA anti-quackery program... " Beecham Laboratories Merck Sharpe and

Dohme Bristol Meyers Company Organon, Inc. Burroughs Wellcome Co. Pennwalt

Co.

> Carter Wallace Inc. The Proprietary Association A. H. Robbins

> Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. Rover Group Janssen

Pharmaceutical Sandoz Jeffrey Martin Inc. Schering Corp. Johnson & Johnson

Squibb Knoll Pharmaceutical Sterling Drug, Inc. Lederle Laboratories Stuart

Pharmaceuticals McNeil Company Syntex Corporation Warner Lambert Company

>

> -from a November 15, 1985 letter on PAC/FDA letterhead signed by John

> Chusid, coordinators, PAC/FDA anti-quackery program HUMANITARIANISM AT THE

FDA Despite compelling scientific evidence, despite decades of usage in

other countries, despite countless successes and few failures, the FDA still

continues to deny the public access to nutritional therapies, and persecute

and imprison qualified physicians who choose to use them. In 1993, the FDA

> finally did accept the claim of folic acid for prevention of neural tube

> defects; too late for millions of children born with these preventable

birth

> defects. In the meantime, our friends and loved ones die of other

> preventable and treatable diseases, thanks to the FDA's campaign against

natural substances. " Women who take over-the counter multivitamin pills

early in pregnancy sharply reduce the risk of having a baby with (neural

tube defect which) affect 4000 babies a year. Neural tube defects include

anaecephaly (missing brain)... and spina bifida... " -_New York Times_,

November 24, 1989, pg. 1, (reporting on an article published in the _Journal

of the American Medical Association_, same date " Several studies, conducted

in the United Kingdom and the United States, have shown that multivitamin

use is associated with

> decreased risk of neural tube defects, including both anacephaly and spina

bifida. "

>

> -_Nutrition Reviews_, 1990;48 (1):15, (January) " This study has

established the specific role of folic acid in the prevention of neural tube

defects. "

>

> -Medical Research Council (UK), Vitamin Study Research Group, _Lancet_,

338(8760):131- 137, 20 July 1991 " The Centers for Disease Control has

recommended daily vitamin supplements containing folic acid for women who

have given birth to a child with neural tube defect. The guidelines were

released because of... evidence... that folic acid can reduce the

possibility (of recurrent) neural tube defect. "

>

> -_Medical Tribune_ 1991,:32(17):4 (August 22, 1992) " The Food and Drug

Administration is proposing note to authorize the use of the label and

labelling of foods, including dietary supplements, of health claims relating

to an association between folic acid and reduction of risk of neural tube

defects. "

>

> -Proposed Rules published in the _Federal Register_, November 27,

> 1991. " The Food and Drug Administration said... it will require all makers

> of bread and grains to add folic acid to products labeled 'enriched' in an

> attempt to reduce birth defects in the United States. " -_The New York

> Times_, October 10, 1993 " Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand

(anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients

while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the

vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients

nor their doctors were allowed to testify. " -Barry Lynes, _The Healing of

Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensvile, Ontario LOG 1R0, Canada, 1989,

pg. 21 " On July 17, 1985 agents of the FDA and Harris County Sheriffs Office

entered (Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski's) clinic and seized 11 filing cabinets

containing past and current medical records... despite many apparent

successes in the treatment of usually incurable cancers, (Burzynski's)

antineoplaston therapy remains unrecognized by the AMA, the National Cancer

> Society... as of March 1992, FDA had not brought charges... nor returned

the clinic property... "

>

> -Meg Smith, The Burzynsky Controversy in the United States and Canada,

_Canadian Journal of Sociology_, 1992; 17(2):133 FREEDOM OF THE PRESS,

FDA-STYLE Are you getting the impression we are living in a medical police

state? Freedom in America includes the right to choose and the right to be

informed. FDA is working very hard to make sure our medical choices are

limited to chemicals; and to ensure this, they are censoring information we

need to make intelligent choices. " Two days before the San Mateo Times

(California) was to print a serialization of nutrition pioneer Lelord

Kordel's book, the general manager of the Times received a call from FDA San

Francisco District Director McKay McKinnon, objecting to the publication.

McKinnon explained that FDA was not in sympathy with Kordel's view on

> nutrition. " -Omar Garrison, _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970,

pgs. 120-122 The agency requests comments on whether it should consider all

third-party endorsements that imply a nutrient in a food has an effect on a

disease... to be health claims... " (It is illegal to public " health claims "

unless FDA " approves " - editor). " Examples of...(third party) labeling

endorsement programs that FDA has considered to be implied health claims

include programs... sponsored by the American College of Nutrition, the

American Heart Association, the American Medical Association (campaign

against cholesterol), and the American Medical Women's Association... " (FDA

hearby proposes to make endorsements by even these professional groups

illegal... unless FDA approves! - editor)

>

> -FDA Proposed Rules, _Federal Register_, November 27, 1991, pgs. 60,

554-60. " In December 1991, Dr. John Vanderveen, Director of the Division of

Nutrition at FDA Office of Nutrition and Food Science called the managing

editor of The Journal of the American College of Nutrition inquiring about

an article critical of the FA. He asked that a copy of the article be sent

to him, and material favorable to the FDA be published. He was told it was

not the Journal's policy to make articles

> available prior to publication. Vanderveen then threatened the Journal's

> editor and its executive director Mildred Seelig, M. D., M. P. H., stating

> that if the Journal did not follow FA's recommendation, FA 'would come

down very hard on the American College of Nutrition.' " -_Food Chemical News,

April 277, 1992 " It was in 1936 that I copyrighted _Cancer, Its Cause and

Control_. They (FDA) forced me to spend a whole year in jail... When I heard

everything was ready to put out a third edition, they notified me in no

uncertain terms that 'Unless you stop... we will snatch you... and do a

lobotomy on you.' "

>

> -Emerson Hartman, _Cancer News Journal_, 1977 THE ULTIMATE TYRANNY " When

books are burned, the ultimate tyranny has happened. "

>

> -John Steinbeck " On August 22, 1956, FDA supervised the burning of all Dr.

Wilhelm Reich's scientific books, journals, pamphlets. and 'all documents'

concerning his scientific experiments as part of an injunction obtained

against him because FDA disagreed with his theories. "

>

> -Aubrey Westlake, M. D., _The Pattern of Health_, Shambala Publications,

Berkeley, California, 1973, pgs. 59-62, (backed up by a variety of other

historical sources) WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM THIS AGENCY NOW?

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> WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM FDA? DISTORTING THE " PURE FOOD " (AND

> OTHER) LAWS SINCE 1906 by Maureen K. Salaman & Jonathan V. Wright, M.

> D. Severe criticisms have been leveled against FDA since its inception

> as the Bureau of Chemistry in 1906. Harvey W. Wiley, M. D., the first

> head of the Bureau, resigned in disgust in 1912. " Dr. Wiley resigned

> because the fundamental principles of the Pure Food Law have been

> strangled; because he has been powerless to punish the manufacturers

> of misbranded and adulterated drugs. " -Rocky Mountain News

 

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