Subject: Re: Wonder Drugs That Can Kill
Author: Richard SchultzDate: 23 Jul
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In article <dQJhk.786$%f.234@fe091.usenetserver.com>, vernono <vernono@there.com> wrote:
: "Richard Schultz" <schultr@mail.biu.ack.il> wrote in message
: news:g66h2p$2ik$6@news.iucc.ac.il...
:> In article <eFyhk.1081$7g.944@fe109.usenetserver.com>, vernono
:> <vernono@there.com> wrote:
:> : Boy have you swallowed the pharm game.
:> : I can put ANYTHING on the market unless I make claims about it or
:> : someone suffers a very negative response.
:> That's not the "pharm" game -- that's the effect of lobbying (and at least
:> one well-placed "political contribution") on the part of the "natural
:> supplements" industry.
: Do what?
It was the "nutritional supplement" industry that made sure that as long
as they make no explicit claims, the FDA can't do a thing to them.
: Natural supplement industry? Which of the 300 plus? DUUHHH
The industry that rakes in something like $27 billion/year in the U.S. alone.
: ONE contribution? ha ha ha ha ha ha
I'm sure that they've made more than one (although you don't seem to realize
that the more that they've made, the weaker your case is). The one I was
thinking of was the well-publicized one they made to Orrin Hatch, who
obediently pushed through the legislation that removed "nutritional
supplements" from the list of things that the FDA can regulate.
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Richard Schultz schultr@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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