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FDA Trilateral Cooperation Charter - the end of health freedom as we know it

10/17/2011 - As horrific as the recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) guidelines are for health freedom (http://www.naturalnews.com/033482_FDA_dietary_supplements.html), they are not necessarily the worst threat currently on the regulatory horizon. Far off the radar of most in...

Warning for athletes: Some dietary supplements may contain trace amounts of banned substances

10/1/2011 - Athletes should be cautious about the dietary supplements they take, as these may contain small amounts of banned substances, according to a recent study conducted by Loughborough University Professor of Sport and Exercise Nutrition, Ron Maughan. Having repeatedly warned about the possibility of...

Now is the time to take action! FDA extends comment period for dietary supplement takeover proposal

9/28/2011 - Massive public outcry against the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) proposed guidelines for New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) in supplements appears to be having a significant impact, as the agency recently announced a 60-day extension period for the public to submit comments on the issue. This means...

Take action NOW to stop FDA from turning your vitamins and supplements into unapproved 'food additives'

9/1/2011 - We here at NaturalNews cannot stress enough how important it is to take the time to fight back against the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) latest assault against vitamins and dietary supplements. Proposed guidelines put forth by the agency for "New Dietary Ingredients" (NDIs) propose treating...

FDA draft guidance to cripple natural products sector and health freedom, decimate supplement innovation

8/25/2011 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on a mission to seize control of the dietary supplement industry, and cripple it from being able to freely innovate and market potent, effective health products to consumers. In fact, as we reported a few weeks ago, the agency's draft guidance proposals...

Survival Medicine and Food

8/11/2011 - Things are going to come at us fast and furious now so it's time to prepare for the worst. The world is on the edge of panic so I am telling people in this essay what to stock up on in terms of emergency medical supplies as well as survival foods and how the two can overlap meaning the best survival...

Timeline of FDA raids on raw milk farmers, dietary supplement makers and natural medicine practitioners

8/10/2011 - The US Food and Drug Administration has a long history of conducting armed, SWAT-style raids on farmers, cancer treatment pioneers and dietary supplement manufacturers. This list, compiled by the editors of NaturalNews, reveals only some of the hundreds of armed FDA raids that have been conducted in...

FDA's scheme to outlaw nearly all nutritional supplements created after 1994 would destroy millions of jobs and devastate economy

7/7/2011 - Yesterday we reported on the FDA's new scheme for outlawing nearly all nutritional supplements formulated after October, 1994 (http://www.naturalnews.com/032912_FDA_dietary_supplements.html). That was just the beginning of this story, because a detailed analysis of the proposed new regulation reveals...

Durbin 'Dietary Supplement Labeling Act' to reward FDA for failures and punish responsible supplement producers

7/6/2011 - A new bill introduced by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), S. 1310, the "Dietary Supplement Labeling Act of 2011," threatens to undermine the dietary supplement industry by giving the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) more power over it, despite the agency's failure to enforce existing laws that are already...

FDA unleashes end game scheme to outlaw virtually all dietary supplements formulated after 1994

7/6/2011 - In the wake of hundreds of dietary supplements recently being outlawed across the EU, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has quietly unleashed a regulatory scheme that, if fully implemented, could ban virtually all dietary supplements in the USA that were formulated after 1994. That means nearly...

Inexpensive dietary supplement helps to prevent birth defects

10/25/2010 - Many medical professionals recommend that pregnant women take folic acid--also known as vitamin B9--as part of a prenatal supplement regimen designed to help ensure a healthy pregnancy. But new research out of the U.K. suggests that taking inositol along with folic acid will greatly decrease the chances...

Senate bill 3767 seeks to put dietary supplement makers in prison for ten years (for telling the truth)

9/23/2010 - Beware of Senate bill 3767, the so-called Food Safety Accountability Act. This dangerous legislation, if passed, would criminalize nutritional supplement manufacturers who tell the truth about their products or link to published scientific studies describing the biological benefits of their products....

FDA defeated in federal court over censorship of truthful health claims

6/4/2010 - Health freedom has just been handed a significant victory by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which ruled last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated the First Amendment rights of a nutritional supplement company when it censored truthful, scientifically-backed...

Support the Free Speech About Science Act and restore freedom of health speech

5/27/2010 - The Alliance for Natural Health, a nonprofit organization committed to protecting access to natural and integrative medicine, has recently come up with a Congressional bill designed to stop government censorship of truthful, scientific health claims about natural foods and herbs, and restore free speech...

McCain bill threatens access to vitamins and supplements

2/26/2010 - Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) has introduced a new bill called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) of 2010 (S. 3002), that, if enacted, would severely curtail free access to dietary supplements. Cosponsored by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota), the bill would essentially give the FDA full...

CSPI calling for outright censorship of "structure and function" claims for nutritional supplements

2/8/2010 - The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has put together a 158-page report for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that contains detailed information about food manufacturers that it says are making false or misleading health claims about their products. The powerful lobbying group is...

FDA, FTC threaten Dr. Weil over immune-boosting supplements for H1N1 swine flu (opinion)

10/22/2009 - In working to protect the business interests of vaccine manufactures, both the FDA and FTC have declared all-out war against any products that might offer consumers options other than vaccines. This week, that war against natural remedies reached the shores of Dr. Andrew Weil, who is perhaps the best-known...

FTC orders Daniel Chapter One to lie to customers about cancer remedies; ministry defends health freedom

9/3/2009 - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is at war with online retailers of nutritional supplements and natural remedies, but it recently lost a major battle: Lane Labs, which has suffered under FTC and FDA tyranny for years, recently won a significant battle against the corrupt agency. After the FTC tried...

FDA Floats Hydroxycut Scare to Discredit Yet Another Supplement Company

5/7/2009 - After tens of millions of doses of Hydroxycut were taken by consumers, one person died. This, along with reports of a few dozen liver-related side effects, caused the FDA to push for an industry-wide recall of virtually all Hydroxycut products. The thinking behind the warning? The risk of side effects...

Natural Products Association Issues Disinfo Announcement over Dietary Supplements and Swine Flu (opinion)

5/6/2009 - The natural products industry leaders are engaged in a clever "disinfo" campaign to brainwash people into thinking that herbs and nutritional products are useless for defending against swine flu. Today, the Natural Products Association (NPA), Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and the American...

Integrative Medicine on Capitol Hill

3/20/2009 - The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, or DSHEA, is a decent law. It says supplements are to be treated as food, not drugs, which only makes sense. Supplements are safe and natural food substances. As such, they can't be patented. This, of course, really irritates the pharmaceutical...

Boost Your Memory with Brain-Boosting Supplements

2/25/2009 - Where did I leave my keys? Who am I supposed to call again? What did I mean by that scribbled note, anyway? Everybody experiences these incidents of forgetfulness. As we get older, these kinds of memory lapses can become routine, and are casually attributed to "advancing years" by many baby boomers,...

Tyrannical FTC Threatens Christian Church with Imprisonment for Selling Dietary Supplements

1/13/2009 - The FTC has unleashed a new assault against both dietary supplements and religious freedoms by targeting a Christian church for termination. Through exclusive interviews and conversations with health freedom attorney Jim Turner (http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html), NaturalNews has learned...

Study Shows Chinese dietary supplement Xuezhikang Lowers Risk of Heart Attack

10/26/2008 - The traditional Chinese remedy known as Xuezhikang can drastically improve the recovery of patients after a heart attack- -- including by lowering the risk of repeat attacks - according to a study conducted by researchers from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and published in the American...

A Small Supplement Company's Fight for Health Freedom

7/29/2008 - For the past five years, the Utopia Silver Supplement Company has been waging a battle for health freedom against the giants of the State of Texas and the FDA -- one which may have major implications for all of us regarding the freedom of access to natural health supplements. "This system operates...

The Vitamin Hoax: Big Pharma Speaks Through Reader's Digest Magazine

2/4/2008 - The cover of the November 2007 issue of Reader's Digest magazine makes a strong statement through a featured article entitled The Vitamin Hoax: 10 Not to Take. Written by Reader's Digest Senior Research Editor, Neena Samuel, the article cautions readers not to be duped into purchasing vitamins and supplements....

FDA Collaboration with Big Pharma Raises Eyebrows

1/17/2008 - The Andrew von Eschenbach FDA era is upon us. The Avandia scandal is the tip of the iceberg. Is anyone ready? The words "illicit financial collusion" have been replaced by the politically correct term, "collaboration." On May 30, in defense of his cozy relationship with Big Pharma and Big Biotech von...

FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies

1/15/2008 - The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with business and intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from the market. The FDA announcement came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under the guise of a final rule for...

Group Plans to Protect Global Dietary Supplement Access

12/20/2007 - UK-based health freedom campaign group the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) has outlined a challenge against what it believes to be a critical process in the global regulation of trade and consumer access to dietary supplements. Responding to an 'Orientation Paper' created by the European Commission...

FDA tyranny to become law: HR.2900 analysis by Richards and Adams

7/12/2007 - On July 11, 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 2900, blocking debate on the law and preventing the introduction of any amendments that might have provided meaningful drug safety protections for consumers. This action demonstrates that the House of Representatives, much like the Senate,...

FDA drug safety bill passes in the U.S. Senate; health freedom advocates outraged at betrayal of American consumers

5/9/2007 - The U.S. Senate passed the FDA "drug safety" bill today (S.1082) with a 93-1 vote. A key amendment that would have called for genuine drug safety protections for consumers -- the Grassley amendment 1039 -- was defeated by a single vote (47 to 46). The new law deepens financial ties between Big Pharma...

Natural health community having a huge impact on Senate bill S.1082; consumers achieving important victories

5/4/2007 - We have good news to report on the Senate bill S.1082 that we've been covering all week. The grassroots efforts of citizens and advocates in the health freedom movement are making a huge impact on this legislative effort. We've already managed to delay the voting on the bill from early this week to...

FDA Revitalization Act renamed, amended and still hotly debated; floor vote is imminent

5/1/2007 - The hotly-debated S.1082 legislation sponsored by Sen. Kennedy has now been renamed the Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007, reports Brenna Hill of the Health Freedom Foundation and American Association (www.HealthFreedom.net). The bill is being hotly debated and has been delayed by two...

Codex puts industry interests before consumers – again! (press release)

11/7/2006 - Forty-five countries and 24 international non-governmental organizations today completed a week of deliberations at the 28th session of the United Nations-backed Codex nutrition committee, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This year’s meeting of the committee, relocated from its heartland in Germany,...

John Hammell of International Advocates for Health Freedom discusses health freedom under siege; Part 1

10/16/2006 - Mike: Hi, I'm Mike Adams and I am here today with John Hammell of NoCodexGenocide.com to talk about Codex, the supplement industry and why people need to get involved in the fight for health freedom. Give us a little background, please, John. John: I am the president of International Advocates for...

Action needed to stop AER bill designed to discredit nutritional supplements: Health Freedom Foundation announcement

9/10/2006 - S.3546 the Dietary Supplement and Non-Prescription Drug Consumer Protection Act (the AER bill) has been added to the Senate calendar, and staff expect it to be considered this week. What is unknown is whether it will be a roll call vote (recorded) or under unanimous consent*. Recorded is preferable...

Quality standards issued for testing herbal products (press release)

8/17/2006 - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the first suite of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) in a planned series of reference materials for botanical dietary supplements. The dietary supplement industry has exploded in the past...

Free Speech and Dietary Supplements: A health freedom speech by Rep. Ron Paul

5/14/2006 - Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce the Health Freedom Protection Act. This bill restores the First Amendment rights of consumers to receive truthful information regarding the benefits of foods and dietary supplements by codifying the First Amendment standards used by federal courts to strike down the...

Protect your health freedom: Put an end to Codex and support the Health Freedom Protection Act

3/15/2006 - The United States has come to a decision point on nutritional supplements. Choice A is to continue participating in the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), which could be hazardous to public health by setting limitations on supplements, and Choice B is to pass the Health Freedom Protection Act (HFPA),...

Interview: "Amazon John" of the Amazon Herb Company

9/29/2005 - Mike Adams: Today I'm speaking with "Amazon John" of the Amazon Herb Company. So, one of the first questions I want to ask is that a lot of people don't believe that businesses can do good deeds, and at the same time earn revenues. What's your take on that? How have you been able to make the Amazon...

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