Tuesday, October 24, 2006

FDA, FTC have joined forces to remove natural diabetes treatments from the web using campaign of "threat letters," says health advocate

So here we go with the Big Pharma bullying. This is OUTRAGEOUS and should not be tolerated by our citizens for our government institutions to bully retailers like this! Here is a link to the NewsTarget article and here are some excerpts from that article:

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(NewsTarget) According to a newsletter on the FDA website, the agency has teamed up with the Federal Trade Commission and similar agencies in Canada and Mexico to form the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN), in order to quash "deceptive" internet ads for cures or treatments for diabetes.

The warning letters caution that failure to comply with the FDA's demands may result in actions such as product seizure and injunctions without any further notice. So far, the network says it has caused a quarter of targeted firms to shut down, and some others are in contact with the FTC regarding the warnings.

Health advocates such as Adams and Jon Barron say that the only consumers who are being taken in, however, are the ones who buy into the FDA and FTC claims.

Barron points out on his blog, that a study was released on the same day the FDA made their announcement, suggesting that FDA-approved diabetes drug pioglitazone is not only useless as a treatment, but is also harmful to patients.

Barron said that consumers should read between the lines of Glavin's quote, and assume she means that the FDA will not tolerate practices that raise false hopes and bilk consumers unless the pharmaceutical companies and FDA-approved drugs are responsible for said false hopes and bilking.

"The conventional medicine approach to treating diabetes doesn't work," Adams said. "No diabetes patient has ever been cured by pharmaceuticals, but countless numbers have been cured through foods, herbs, nutritional supplements and exercise. The FDA doesn't want anyone to know that because it threatens the profits of drug companies.

"Drug companies are expecting a windfall of profits from diabetes patients over the next two decades, but to lock those profits in, they have to clear away the competition from anti-diabetic foods, herbs and nutritional supplements," he said. "Enter the FDA and FTC, the street thugs of Big Pharma, who do the dirty work of threatening online retailers with heavy fines if they don't stop telling the truth about their natural products."

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It's ludicrous for them to try to threaten retailers outside the jurisdiction of the US as well. But if the CODEX is passed, then the long reach of the FDA will be extended to THE WORLD. That is why we need to STOP THE CODEX. Their agenda is not to make people healthy. It is to protect the Pharmaceutical company profits. A large number of Advisory Board members of the FDA have stock in and very strong ties to Pharmaceuticals and Chemical companies.

You know that next in their crosshairs will be Laetrile. Most of the Laetrile sold online comes from Mexico so I am certain they will be trying the same tactics with Laetrile next. I will make it my LIFE MISSION to make sure Laetrile is available to EVERYONE.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I applaud your blog!
Eli Lilly 3Q 10% profit rise is nearly all from psyche drugs including zyprexa.How have they schemed to squeeze more money from their zyprexa cash cow when pill production has actually gone down?

ANS-Eli Lilly profiteers have jacked up the price of zyprexa to the federal govt,from the Medicare D payouts.Eli Lilly is a big drug company that puts profits over patients.

They covered up findings that their Zyprexa has a TEN times greater risk of causing type 2 diabetes

Only 9% of Americans trust big pharma,right around the same rating as tobacco companies.

Daniel Haszard Eli Lilly zyprexa drug caused my diabetes www.zyprexa-victims.com

Ruthiness said...

Thanks much Daniel. I hope you have been able to recover from the damage done by Zyprexa. I didn't even know all of that about Zyprexa so it makes my post even more relevant than I realized. I actually got this from my hero Mike Adams who is constantly scouring the news for tidbits like this. Our country is under siege by big business and the FDA is THEIR ally not ours. We are going to have to fight to keep our health freedom or what's left of it.

Ruthiness said...

I visited your site and you have done an incredible job mounting this case against them. I applaud your effort! Knowing this about Zyprexa makes it EVEN MORE ASTONISHING that they claim to have the authority to threaten retailers who sell natural solutions for diabetes that have never proven to be harmful to patients yet at the same time an FDA approved drug is CAUSING diabetes in patients.