Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The FDA recently declared war on natural medicine, and it went way beyond herbs and vitamins in naming things to regulate as drugs or medical devices. The agency is now targeting "energy medicine" and stating that any physical objects used in the practice of energy medicine will be regulated as medical devices. That is, unless the therapy in question is completely useless and has no effect on patients, in which case it will be happily allowed.
The FDA's ultimate game plan? Force everyone to rely on dangerous prescription medications by eliminating the competition. |
| That would normally be a believable position to take, except for the fact that the FDA has already raided a church, arrested its leaders and confiscated its religious tools, claiming they were "medical devices." I've documented this raid in the articles mentioned above. It may not have happened to YOUR church, but if someone else's church isn't safe from the FDA, what's to say that yours is?
The FDA has clearly proven its willingness to smash down the doors of a sacred building, terrorize the members and staff, and confiscate everything it can find in order to disrupt church operations. |
| No sane person would ever think that Holy water, rosaries, prayer oils and cloths could ever be considered drugs and medical devices, but then again, the FDA is not an agency that operates within the boundaries of sanity.
The FDA believes it is above God. Any person who has ever dealt with the FDA will confirm this. The arrogance of the FDA is so extreme that if the agency could find a way to actually regulate God, it would no doubt have done so by now. Because prayer heals people; physically, emotionally and spiritually. It helps people recover from surgery and it calms troubled minds. |
| The agency is now targeting "energy medicine" and stating that any physical objects used in the practice of energy medicine will be regulated as medical devices. That is, unless the therapy in question is completely useless and has no effect on patients, in which case it will be happily allowed.
The FDA's ultimate game plan? Force everyone to rely on dangerous prescription medications by eliminating the competition. Anything that offers people genuine healing seems slated to be outlawed or regulated out of existence. |
| Even religious art -- paintings, statues, sculptures and stained glass windows -- could be siezed as "unapproved medical devices" if they are described as having any sort of therapeutic or healing effect on the people who look upon them.
Think it could never happen? You have no idea what the FDA is really capable of. To maintain its control over the people and the entire medical industry, the FDA seems willing to do whatever is necessary, including violating Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, and any other freedom that gets in its way. |
| Whether churches are allowed to continue practicing religious freedom is now left up to corrupt FDA "experts" who can decide, on a whim, to outlaw any religious object, liquid or oil by regulating them as drugs or medical devices. In other words, it is now the FDA, not God, that grants permission to conduct religious ceremony in the United States. And the FDA believes it overrides God.
Importantly, the idea of "faith" does not stand up to the FDA's so-called scientific scrutiny. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Senate is a bill that would "revitalize" the FDA and create a Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration that could earn royalties licensing drugs or medical devices. Depending on whom you ask, the creation of this foundation either puts the FDA in business with Big Pharma, or is "no big deal" and has nothing to do with licensing drugs or medical devices.
Once again, I remind readers to read between the lines. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Health Care Without Harm was pushing hospitals to phase out medical devices made of vinyl plastic, which created dioxin when manufactured and burned, and which also had a second problem: they leached phthalates into patients. Vinyl medical devices such as IV bags were softened with di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), a close cousin of the phthalate Jane found in the nail polish. |
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 Translation: Massage oils and creams will be regulated as "drugs" and acupuncture needles as "medical devices." Taking this absurdity one step further, massage therapists who use their fingers to touch patients may have their fingers regulated as "medical devices" and be accused of practicing medicine for merely touching patients.
Things that will be regulated out of existence
It is very clear that the FDA is intending to regulate and ultimately destroy the entire CAM industry (Complementary and Alternative Medicine). |
| Massage therapists who use hot rocks as part of their therapy will have the ROCKS regulated as medical devices! (It's true. The FDA will actually look at a pile of rocks and declare, "Those are medical devices!")
Functional foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will disappear from store shelves, pending FDA "review." (The only things remaining will be processed junk foods and pharmaceuticals, which is exactly what Big Business wants.)
Therapeutic tea products, such as green tea, will be outlawed and confiscated. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Vinyl medical devices such as IV bags were softened with di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), a close cousin of the phthalate Jane found in the nail polish. The same month the CDC released its findings about phthalates in people, an expert panel at the US National Toxicology Program expressed "serious concern" that phthalates leaching from vinyl medical devices could harm the reproductive organs of critically ill male infants receiving medical treatments. |
| FDA's legal authority over cosmetics is comparable with its authority over other FDA-regulated products, such as foods, nonprescription drugs, and nonprescription medical devices.
Well, not really. These claims were posted on the CTFA website as of January 2007.4 In reality, cosmetics are the least regulated products at the FDA. The agency does not routinely safety test cosmetic products; and unlike drugs, the agency doesn't require manufacturers to demonstrate cosmetic products are safe. CTFA has fought long and hard to keep it that way. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Device makers do even better: About 30 percent of the thirty billion dollars we pay for such implantable medical devices as vena cava filters, cardiac defibrillators, artificial hips, and cardiovascular stents is profit. Drug and device makers say they need high profit margins in order to fund their research and development; anything that threatens their margins, they argue, could stifle innovation, and they routinely lobby Congress whenever it looks as if legislation in favor of technology assessment might pass. |
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| Massage oils and massage rocks will be classified as "medical devices" and require FDA approval. The document is called Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA is accepting public comments on the docket until April 30th. They tried to sneak this under the radar, but word got out and now the natural health community is up in arms over this rule. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Today, doctors routinely prescribe drugs, perform procedures, and use medical devices and tests on the basis of evidence that sometimes has only a little more science to support it than the contagion theory. They recommend the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, test, even though there is little to suggest that it reduces a man's chances of dying from prostate cancer prematurely. |
| The seven hundred billion dollars we currently spend on unnecessary care doesn't just go down the drain—it goes toward paying for drugs and medical devices, which are manufactured by American workers. It helps pay the salaries of doctors, hospital administrators, nurses, orderlies, and pharmacists. It covers part of the cost of hospital beds and the construction of new hospital wings, which are built by American construction workers. It helps support the insurance industry and the salaries of all the clerks who shuffle those mountains of paperwork. |
Stacy Malkan
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| During that time, the group lobbied to keep vinyl medical devices — a major source of phthalate exposure to sick patients — unregulated and unlabelled. AdvaMed and the CTFA use the same "phthalates are safe" talking points as the Phthalates Ester Panel and the Vinyl Institute, trade associations that share offices with the chemical industry trade group, the American Chemistry Council. ACC recently launched a $35 million ad campaign called "chemicals are essential". The flagship ad, running in all the major opinion leader magazines, features a sick baby in an incubator full of plastic tubes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Also as part of the FDA's crackdown on gravity, all "bouncing" items such as trampolines, rebounders and exercise balls will be reclassified as medical devices and required to go through $800 million in clinical testing to prove they are safe before being sold to consumers. Even then, they will only be available with a doctor's prescription. To support the crackdown, the FDA warns that hundreds of children have already been harmed by trampolines, and that confiscating them is the only way to protect Americans from "these extremely harmful medical devices. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 According to the American Plastics Council, products that may contain the chemical bisphenol A include: hard, clear plastic baby bottles hard, clear, sometimes tinted, plastic water bottles hard, clear plastic bowls, tableware, storage containers liners inside food and drink cans dental sealant to prevent cavities electronic equipment sports safety equipment medical devices pet carriers spray-on flame retardants
There's more to this story, too -- not only is it toxic, it could affect your child's metabolism. |
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| We republished Byron Richards' most recent article which specifically points out that this FDA Evilization Act of 2007 could allow the FDA to get into the business of licensing and selling drugs and medical devices. The bill also expands the financial incest between Big Pharma and the FDA by increasing the "user fees" paid by drug companies to the FDA for reviewing and approving their drugs.
It is quite clear that the FDA is already functioning as the marketing branch of Big Pharma, and this new Evilization Act of 2007 would deepen the financial relationships between the two. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| One reason it's surprising that new machinery is adopted so quickly in medicine is that unlike technology in almost any other industry, new medical devices and equipment don't lower costs. In an industry like, say, steel, investing in expensive technology like automation ultimately brings down production costs by eliminating expensive labor. In health care, by contrast, technology generally drives costs upward. Health care economists say that's not a bad thing. |
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| The CAM Guidelines (click here to read them yourself) represent a new era of thinking at the FDA and describe the agency's intentions to regulate herbs, functional foods, therapeutic oils, nutritional supplements and even physical devices such as massage rocks as either "drugs" or "medical devices." Click here to read our previous story describing the CAM Guidlines. These guidelines have been widely described as a brazen FDA attempt to destroy naturopathy and alternative medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Creates a Reagan-Udall non-profit foundation that could put the FDA in the drug business, allowing it to license and collect royalties on pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
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Okay, let's get to the real story here. The bill has good intentions, but even if it passes, it still leaves the FDA fully in charge of a medical monopoly, paid and influenced by drug companies, and does nothing to outlaw direct-to-consumer drug advertising.
Relevant facts about the FDA and Big Pharma:The FDA is funded in part by the drug companies themselves. |
| We republished Byron Richards' most recent article which specifically points out that this FDA Evilization Act of 2007 could allow the FDA to get into the business of licensing and selling drugs and medical devices. The bill also expands the financial incest between Big Pharma and the FDA by increasing the "user fees" paid by drug companies to the FDA for reviewing and approving its drugs.
It is quite clear that the FDA is already functioning as the marketing branch of Big Pharma, and this new Evilization Act of 2007 would deepen the financial relationships between the two. |
Mark Sircus
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 According to the New York Times, "New evidence keeps emerging that the medical profession has sold its soul in exchange for what can only be described as bribes from the manufacturers of drugs and medical devices."1 A soulless medicine's first crime is its failure to seriously embrace preventive medicine and avoid disease in the first place. None of the pharmaceutical companies are interested in preventive medicine for they make all their money from sickness and disease.
Preventive medicine is as important as any other type of medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Taking this absurdity one step further, massage therapists who use their fingers to touch patients may have their fingers regulated as "medical devices" and be accused of practicing medicine for merely touching patients.
Things that will be regulated out of existence
It is very clear that the FDA is intending to regulate and ultimately destroy the entire CAM industry (Complementary and Alternative Medicine). |
| FDA "experts" will decide what's a drug or medical device
Under these proposed guidelines, FDA "experts" (the same corrupt officials who reapproved Vioxx after it killed over 50,000 Americans) will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple devices like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical devices. If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of existence. |
| The FDA will actually look at a pile of rocks and declare, "Those are medical devices!")
Functional foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will disappear from store shelves, pending FDA "review." (The only things remaining will be processed junk foods and pharmaceuticals, which is exactly what Big Business wants.)
Therapeutic tea products, such as green tea, will be outlawed and confiscated.
Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for "practicing medicine without a license. |
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