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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.