FDA’s Got Those “I Just Can’t Seem to Kill Natural Medicine” Blues
Email Newsletter from April 6, 2007
FDA’s Got Those "I Just Can’t Seem to Kill
Natural Medicine" Blues
We The People Know How It Goes!
Congress tried this before in the early 1990’s. Now the FDA is serving their corporate masters, Big Pharma and Big Biotechna! We, the People clearly are not going to let them!
Remember, we only have DSHEA*, the legislation which says that nutrients are foods, not drugs, because of the uproar and hubbub created by the American populace when Congress threatened to accomplish this very same maneuver in 1994. We spoke out then by the millions and saved our supplements and herbs. But the other side did not go away. We need to speak out now to save supplements, herbs again and, this time, save non-pharmaceutical health care, too.
YOUR AMAZING RESPONSE!
You are fantastic! I sent out the Action Alert at something like 5:30 AM this morning, Bangkok time, and by noon today hundreds of replications (emails you have sent to your lists have arrived in my email box!)
Please make sure that you sign the letter to the FDA yourself and contact everyone you know or the FDA, the government-funded agency of the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries, will finally succeed in eliminating ALL natural therapies and products.
Here is the link to use to read more, sign and send your letter to the FDA: http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc. If you would like to read the FDA Guidance yourself, it is available at http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/06d0480/06d0480.htm
You can either:
1. Forward the email you received from the Natural Solutions Foundation earlier today (which follows this note to make it easier for you to send it) to EVERYONE you know with a brief note at the top from you stating that this is vitally important to you so you encourage their immediate action
or
2. You can send this link, http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc , to them so that they can help protect natural medicine.
THIS IS A REAL EMERGENCY!
IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT THAT NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS, SUPPLIERS, NATURAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND PROFESSIONALS GET THIS INFORMATION AND SHARE IT WITH THEIR CLIENTS AND PATIENTS ON AN URGENT BASIS.
The FDA Comment Period on this critically important document closes on April 30, 2007.
Typo Fixed
By the way, the typo in the first line of the letter has been corrected. Thanks for pointing it out to me. I guess when I made the correction I forgot to hit the "Save" button. All letters have been sent to the FDA Receiver of Dockets with the correct word, "assert", not "asset" in the first line.
We are all beset on a daily basis by crisis after crisis so we have to put them in rank order. If you are a user of natural products (like vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc.) or a consumer of natural health modalities or a lover of freedom, this one has to be number 1 in the "Must Act On" Crisis list.
Thanks for your support. Please make sure that everyone you touch in any way, including health food stores, companies that make your supplements and herbs, practitioners, friends, neighbors, etc. gets your information and your sense of urgency.
Thanks for your activism. We ARE the ones we have been waiting for!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
* Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act, passed by Congressional Consent
PS: From now on, Codex Action Alerts will come to you with the following sender’s address: dr.laibow@gmail.com " Please make sure you "white list" this email address so you can continue to get the latest health and health freedom information! That’s the address you can write to us at, too.
Thanks, Dr. Rima
Here’s the Email to Forward:
April 6, 2007
HEALTH FREEDOM ALERT
Your Action is Urgently Needed
Before I tell you why your health freedom is at serious risk right now and what you need to do to protect it, I want to thank each and every one of you who responded so generously to the First Quarter Fund Raising campaign we just concluded. We asked you to cover our operating budget of $85,000 for the first quarter of 2007 and you did. The amazing thing is that we raised EXACTLY $85,000 on the nose. We got donations in odd amounts like $7 and of $11 and round numbers, too. At the end, the total was precisely an exact match with the amount we needed. In all my time working with humanitarian organizations I have never seen anything like this. So a heart-felt thanks to all of you.
If you missed our fund raiser and you want to donate now, that’s fine, too. Just click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189)to make a tax deductible donation to natural health and health freedom! And thank you!
Houston, We Have a Problem!
The US FDA is at it again. They have been notorious for decades for their biased attacks and uneven handling of natural, non-drug/surgery/radiation based health options. This time, though, they are playing for keeps.
The goal is simple: through a "Guidance" about the regulation of "CAM" (which they conveniently define as "Complementary and Alternative MEDICINE" the FDA hopes to serve the interests of Big Pharma by eliminating all CAM practices and products. ALL of them.
Here’s how this deadly game is played:
1. By using the term "Medicine" rather than "Modality" for CAM practices, the FDA sets the stage so that anyone who is not a licensed physician is breaking the law by using these modalities since they are therefore ‘practicing medicine without a license’.
2. By using the term "treatment" rather than "therapy", the FDA limits those who can perform these practices to licensed physicians and, again, anyone who is not a licensed physician is breaking the law by using these modalities since only licensed practitioners can treat. So people using these modalities are therefore ‘practicing medicine without a license’.
3. By using the terms "Medicine" and "treatment" instead of "Modalities" and "therapy", all substances, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, co-factors, etc., automatically become untested drugs since they are being used to prevent, treat, mitigate or cure disease states. Such use can only legally take place with FDA approved drugs.
Here’s How We Protect CAM Practices,
Practitioners and Products
Numbers. Sheer volume of response. Nothing more and nothing less. NOW is the time to act. Our window of opportunity slams shut on April 30, 2007.
That is the link which allows you to send a comment directly to the FDA about their deadly "Guidance". Will it matter? Yes, if millions of people respond. So I am asking you to take this "viral".
Here is what you need to do
NOW
if you value your freedom:
1. Click on the link below and add your name to the letter. When you click "Send" it will be electronically delivered to the FDA docket site and posted.
2. Write a brief note (or copy the information in this email) including this link, http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc, and mail it to every one you can. In your email please:
a. Include everyone you know and tell them that their freedom to choose their own health modalities and options is under serious attack.
b. Send the same email to the the companies which make the vitamins, minerals and herbs you use and ask them to send it out to their entire mailing list.
c. Impress upon the people you contact that we are facing a virulent and highly organized assault on ALL natural products and procedures because they do not feed the pharmaceutical coffers and that their help is crucial.
d. Include a link to the Natural Solutions Foundation website (www.HealthFreedomUSA.org). Ask them to become familiar with the site in order to lend their support to the health freedom battle which threatens their right to make their own health choices.
NOW!
If you have ever thought about taking action to protect your health freedom, NOW is the time to do it.
If you have never thought about taking action, now is the time to think about it and do it.
In my opinion, this is a full blown assault on your rights and mine to opt for strategies which use natural options and procedures.
5,000,000
That’s our goal. Two weeks, five million comments to the FDA, all asserting our fundamental right to control our own health.
Can we do it? It’s up to you.
Here’s the link:
http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc
The future of natural health and health freedom is literally in our hands!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org