The FDA now plans to assault herbal medicines

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: ephedra, prescription drugs, drug profits

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This isn't rational, and it's not science: it's a witch hunt. There is no set level of risk for a drug or nutritional supplement that triggers a ban by the FDA. Rather, the FDA simply allows virtually any drug to stay on the market, regardless of how many patients it kills (Rezulin, a diabetes drug, reportedly killed 10,000 people and damaged the livers of 100,000 before the FDA finally pulled it), while simultaneously applying an entirely different standard to herbal medicines and nutritional supplements.

This is just one of many reasons why we seriously need FDA reform. The FDA has forgotten its mission and betrayed the American public by defending -- in fact, promoting -- the commercial interests of drug companies alone. And in doing so, it has put us all at risk.