(NaturalNews) The FDA has effectively banned a naturally-occurring form of vitamin B6 called
pyridoxamine by declaring it to be a drug, reports the
American Association for Health Freedom. Responding to a petition filed by a drug company, the FDA declared pyridoxamine to be "a new drug."
Now, any nutritional supplements containing pyridoxamine will be considered
adulterated and illegal by the FDA, which may raid vitamin companies and seize such products. See the history of
FDA raids on vitamin companies here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/021791.htmlPyridoxamine occurs naturally in fish, chicken and other foods (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B6), putting
the FDA in the strange position of banning a substance from dietary
supplements even though it is already present in the
food supply.
The FDA's war on Mother Nature
It's not the first time the FDA has declared a
natural molecule to be a "drug" while attacking
nutritional supplements that contain the same molecule. A similar story unfolded with
red yeast rice and the
lovastatin molecules it contains that lower high cholesterol. The drug
companies engaged in biopiracy, ripping off the molecule from red yeast rice to make their now-famous "
statin drugs." Once the statin drugs were patented,
Big Pharma and the FDA went after red yeast rice, claiming the
supplement was "adulterated with
pharmaceuticals."
It wasn't really adulterated, of course. It just contained a natural statin-drug-like molecule that the
drug companies copied and patented.
It would be like Big Pharma patenting
vitamin C, then the FDA claiming that all oranges and lemons were adulterated with
drugs because they naturally contain their own vitamin C.
This is the insanity of the FDA as it operates today. You can read more about the FDA on our channel webiste
www.FDAreform.org which is updated every few days.
So will this ruling on pyridoxamine affect nutritional supplements? Yes, any supplements containing this form of
vitamin B6 can now be declared "adulterated" by the FDA. Manufacturers of such supplements can be arrested and shut down for engaging in "illegal drug trafficking." Such is the
nature of the FDA's agenda to criminalize
nutritional supplement companies and limit consumers' access to Mother Nature's remedies.
The pyridoxamine "drug," by the way (which is just pyridoxamine), is designed to prevent the progression of diabetic nephrothapy (kidney disease). Most likely, the FDA will eventually approve the "drug" for that condition, even while claiming vitamin B6 supplements containing the very same chemical are useless and insert.
This is another classic oppression tactic of the FDA: Ban the
herb, but promote the drug using the same chemicals. The same thing happened with ephedra, a Traditional Chinese Medicine herb known as
ma huang. The FDA banned the herb, saying it was "dangerous at any dose," but pharmaceuticals containing the very same molecules (ephedrine) are still being sold over-the-counter as cold medicines, meaning they're available to any child without a prescription.
The bottom line is this:
FDA approvals and bans have nothing to do with science and everything to do with protecting drug companies profits. If a drug company can make money selling a vitamin as a drug, the FDA will gladly
ban the vitamin and protect the drug. If a drug company can rip off molecules from Mother Nature and patent them, the FDA will ban those same molecules found in nature.
All of this points to the urgent need to
reform the FDA. A new petition demanding real FDA reform will be announced here on
NaturalNews in the coming days.
Sources for this story include:AAHF:
http://aahf.nonprofitsoapbox.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&i...NewsFood.com:
http://www.newsfood.com/?location=English&item=55070NaturalProductsInsider.com:
http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/hotnews/fda-nixes-pyridoxamine-in-s...
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