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[secrets_Revealed] FDA Running Extortion Racket

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 7:54 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FDA Running Extortion Racket: Natural Supplement Companies Threatened with

Arrest if They Don't Pay Up

 

NaturalNews

has learned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is running a criminal

extortion racket designed to drain cash from health supplement

companies and shift it into the pockets of top FDA contractors. This

organized crime operation has been running for years, and it has

operated with impunity because each company targeted by the scam feels

isolated and alone, unable to face the astronomical legal bills of

going to court and battling the FDA. So one by one, they agree to

" settle " with the FDA for crimes they never committed. Part of the

settlement, of course, involves the payment of FDA employees or

contractors who pocket the money extorted from health companies.

 

NaturalNews

has interviewed executives from three different companies who have been

targeted for extortion by U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees.

At their request, the names of those companies are being kept

confidential until legal action being taken against them is resolved.

Interviews have been recorded, with permission, with two of those

companies and will be released to the public at a later date. Documents

proving this FDA extortion racket are included here.

 

How the FDA extorts money from nutritional supplement companies

The

FDA extortion racket works like this: FDA employees use

keyword-scanning software to scan the web pages of natural health

product and supplement companies, searching for terms like cancer,

cures, treatment, remedies and other " forbidden " words. FDA employees

then review the discovered pages to determine if they contain any words

that might inform consumers of the health benefits of the nutritional

products. FDA employees also look for links that might point web users

to scientific articles from peer-reviewed medical journals that further

explain the health benefits of specific foods, supplements or nutrients.

 

When

offending words or links are found by the FDA, their extortion team

goes into full swing. First, they contact the company and warn them to

remove all information and links from their websites. This is the most

important step from the FDA's standpoint, because by doing this, they

can keep the health-conscious public in a state of nutritional

ignorance about the scientifically- supported healing properties of

natural supplements. Cherry products, for example, cannot link to

scientific articles explaining the simple biological fact that cherries

ease inflammation in human beings. Such links are considered " drug

claims " by the FDA.

 

NaturalNews has even learned that companies

are now being targeted for simply posting customer testimonials, even

when those testimonials make absolutely no health claims. FDA and FTC

agents are now threatening the owners of such companies with

imprisonment if they do not immediately remove all customer

testimonials from their websites and marketing materials.

 

If the

company being targeted for extortion refuses to fully comply with the

FDA's requests to remove all educational information from their

website, the FDA then escalates the extortion tactics by threatening

the company principals with arrest and seizure unless they agree to pay

hundreds of thousands of dollars to top FDA contractors and sign a

" consent decree " where the company " admits " to committing various

crimes (see below). This consent decree is a blatant violation of the

Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens, of course, and it violates

numerous sections of the Bill of Rights (Amendments #1 and #5, at the

very least).

 

The FDA employees or contractors receiving the

extorted money, it is claimed, are being paid to " review web pages " to

make sure they don't contain anything that might inform consumers about

the scientifically- validated benefits of the health products being

sold. FDA extortion agreements specify that FDA employees should be

paid the rate of $100 per hour, with no limit on the number of hours

they may bill the company for. The extortion agreement also requires

companies to pay for all the following:

 

• $100 per hour for the travel time of FDA employees.

• Hotel rooms for FDA employees.

• Storage fees for all products seized by the FDA.

 

The

same agreement also requires the company to comply with FDA demands by

never placing any links or " illegal " information on its website, where

" illegal " means anything that offers an accurate description of the

health benefits offered by natural health products.

 

The Consent Decree

Part

of the FDA's strategy for oppression and control is to force targeted

companies to sign a " consent decree " where they admit to crimes they

never committed. NaturalNews obtained a copy of a public court document

the FruitFast company was forced to sign due to FDA threats and

extortion tactics.

 

You can view this document yourself at: http://www.NaturalN ews.com/investig

atio...

 

This document requires the FruitFast company to admit to crimes it did not

commit; namely:

 

" Violating

the Act, by introducing or delivering for introduction, or causing to

be introduced or delivered for introduction, into interstate commerce

articles of drug that are misbranded within the meaning of 21 U.S.C. SS

352(f)(1). "

 

What " drugs " did the FruitFast company introduce

that were " misbranded? " Cherries, it turns out. Cherry juice

concentrate was being sold with the accurate statement that it helped

eliminate gout (which it does). This, according to the FDA, was enough

to magically transform cherry juice into an " unapproved drug " and cause

it to be " misbranded. "

 

It also requires targeted companies to contractually agree that they have:

 

" ...removed

all claims from Defendants' product labels, labeling, promotional

materials, websites owned or controlled by Defendants, and in any other

media that cause that product to be a drug and/or contain unapproved or

unauthorized health claims within the meaning of the Act; and

 

(ii)

removed, from their product labels, labeling, promotional materials,

and websites owned or controlled by Defendants, references to or

endorsements of any other website that conveys information about

Defendants' products that cause those products to be a drug and/or

contain unapproved or unauthorized health claims within the meaning of

the Act. "

 

This means, of course, that these companies can no

longer even LINK to other websites, including websites of scientific

journals that discuss the proven health benefits of such natural

products (foods, herbs, etc.)

 

The truth is now subject to FDA approval

Once

a company removes all educational information and links from their

website, they are then required to submit to draconian measures of

" censorship enforcement " by the FDA. This is fully explained in this

section of the FDA's Consent Decree: (bolding added for emphasis)

 

Within

ten (10) calendar days of FDA's request for any labels, labeling,

promotional materials, and/or downloaded copies (on CD-Rom) of any

internet websites owned or controlled by Defendants or websites

referenced by, endorsed, or adopted directly or indirectly by

Defendants, Defendants shall submit a copy of the requested materials

to FDA at the address specified in paragraph 19.

 

Within twenty

(20) calendar days of entry of this Decree, Defendants shall submit to

FDA a certification of compliance, signed by each of the

individually- named Defendants in this matter, each Defendant stating

that he: (a) has personally reviewed all of Defendants' product labels,

labeling, promotional materials, and the internet websites referred to

in paragraph 8 above; and (b) personally certifies that the product

labels, labeling, promotional materials, and internet websites strictly

comply with the requirements of the Act and its regulations and do not

include unapproved or unauthorized claims that the products cure,

mitigate, treat, prevent and/or reduce the risk of disease. Thereafter,

Defendants shall submit certifications of compliance every three (3)

months for a period of two (2) years.

 

Furthermore, the FDA then

requires that the company being targeted by the extortion racket hire a

person (called the " expert " ) to enforce all this censorship the company

has agreed to.

 

 

Blessings,

 

Kandycares

 

 

 

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