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Help Stop the FDA’s Proposal: Sept. 8
Sep 7th
You knew this was coming.
The FDA has submitted a proposal that could reclassify widely available nutrients like fish oil and curcumin as “food additives” instead of dietary supplements.
This NOT a good thing.
Food additives are under the control of pharmaceutical companies.
If the proposal goes through, it has the very real potential to cause supplement prices to skyrocket, limit your access to existing supplements, ban access to new supplements, and make therapeutic doses of certain nutrients unavailable.
In response, Hallelujah Acres is supporting The Alliance for Natural’s “Call In Lobbying Day“. On September 8 (tomorrow), anyone who objects to the FDA’s proposal is encouraged to protest in writing.
Click this link to notify the FDA to let them know that you object! If you wish, you may copy and paste the following sample letter:
Dear Sir/Madam,
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 states that “the Federal Government should not take any actions to impose unreasonable regulatory barriers limiting or slowing the flow of safe products and accurate information to consumers.”
I find the FDA’s new draft guidance (Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) Notifications and Related Issues) to be a direct violation of the Act.
This draft guidance attempts to treat beneficial dietary supplements as drugs, which indeed creates an “unreasonable regulatory barrier.” In effect, it will unnecessarily drive up prices for said supplements and create an arbitrary approval system which threatens to ban public access to new supplements.
Moreover, because of ill-founded new guidelines as to what is a “safe” dose of certain nutrients, therapeutic amounts could be made unavailable, thus seriously impacting public health.
I vehemently oppose this bill and urge the FDA to withdraw this draft guidance immediately.
Your turn…
How would this proposal affect you?
FDA To Analyze New Dental Fillings Report
Dec 9th
Once again, the danger of mercury dental fillings is taking center stage. On December 14 and 15, an FDA advisory panel will examine a new report on the safety (or lack thereof) of mercury fillings.
The study, a meta-analysis of 106 other studies, recommended “the removal of mercury from public and ecologic circuits and replacing it wherever possible by less toxic alternatives.”
We (Paul and Ann) have done exactly that. We sought out a biologic dentist earlier this year to remove all of our amalgam fillings. We both noticed almost immediate improvements in health, which we discuss in a recent HATV episode about dental fillings.
Most people don’t realize that so-called “silver” fillings are up to 50% mercury! As one of the most toxic substances on Earth, it’s no wonder that Sweden, Norway, and Denmark have all banned mercury-based amalgam dental fillings.
The American Dental Association (ADA) contends, however, that mercury fillings are safe. Perhaps their most bizarre argument is that research articles against amalgam fillings are based “solely on subclinical effects at the cellular level” instead of peer-reviewed clinical research.
In other words, even if amalgams are indeed shown to affect people at the cellular level it doesn’t count because the effects, no matter how real and debilitating, were not analyzed in a clinical setting.
So, until a decision is made in this country regarding the safety of amalgam fillings, we personally prefer to take the route of the Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes and avoid them altogether.
First plants, now GM… fish?
Aug 31st
As if enough stir wasn’t created by the discovery of “escaped” genetically modified (GM) canola in a rural parking lot earlier this summer, now there’s talk of the FDA considering GM fish.
Growth hormones have been used for years, but this marks the first time a true GM animal would be available for human consumption. The fish grows twice as fast as natural Atlantic salmon.
Side effects from eating such fish are unknown. If given the green light, the salmon could be followed by GM trout and tilapia. Other scientists are also developing altered pigs and cows for food.
The announcement blatantly disregards a United Nations report in June 2010 warning that “a substantial worldwide diet change away from animal products” is the only sustainable way to feed the world past the year 2050. Apparently science has not learned its lesson from the disastrous effects of GMO plants. Creating GMO fish is just asking for trouble.
Obviously Hallelujah Acres tends to agree with the United Nations on this one. Eat plants (non-GMO, of course) and be a part of the solution!
PS – Come see us at the Raw Spirit Festival at Watson Lake near Prescott, AZ, September 24-26. We’ll be speaking at 1 pm on Saturday (Sept 25).
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