This report just in from NutraIngredients .com -
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=83968&m=1NIU313&c=jegwylrviswtnqa
Highlights:
Qualified health claims draw more heat
By Shane Starling
"13-Mar-2008 - Four Capitol Hill parliamentarians are calling on the FDA to abandon funding for the qualified health claims system it launched to much industry fanfare in 2003. The four - Senators Richard J. Durbin and Edward M. Kennedy as well as House of Representatives' members Rosa L. DeLauro and Henry A. Waxman - have written a letter to the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, Dr Andrew C. von Eschenbach seeking clarity on a number of issues.
It asks the FDA to make explicit its plans regarding a December 17 appropriations bill in which Congress "urged the FDA not to use funds provided in this bill to review requests for qualified health claims for conventional foods or to issue letters permitting such claims through exercises of enforcement discretion".
They state: "We wish to inquire how the FDA plans to change its policy regarding qualified health claims in response to this statement."
The parliamentarians ask the FDA to:
* Clarify how it planned to deal with any pending or new petitions for health claims
* Publish a statement advising food and supplements companies of Congress's December 17 position regarding qualified health claims
* Reallocate qualified health claims staff to reviewing food labelling violations
* Release results of a survey that investigated consumer reactions to a range of qualified health claims
An FDA spokesperson said there had been no change to the system and all health claim petitions would be dealt with as per normal. "
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My comments:
Qualified Health Claims are not a creation of FDA that can be abandoned at the whim of the Kennedy - Waxman Axis of Control. The highest federal courts have supported consumer access to qualified health claims in the lead Federal Circuit case of Pearson v Shalala, which first forced FDA to allow qualified health claims where there was no "significant scientific agreement" on the benefit, but where there was "reliable and competent scientific evidence..." with appropriate qualifying language.
This basic concept was further supported by the US Supreme Court in Thompson v Western States Medical Centers 535 U.S. 357, where Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for the majority,
"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last - not first - resort."
"We have previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to prevent members of the public from making bad decisions with the information."
"Even if the Government did argue that it had an interest in preventing misleading advertisements, this interest could be satisfied by the far less restrictive alternative of requiring ... a warning that the [substance] had not undergone FDA testing and that its risks were unknown."
Say "No" to the Gang of Four and their machinations!
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Forced vaccination... more health fascism
Good job Charlie! http://www.commoninterest.info/
Natural Solutions Foundation's Washington representative, Charlie Frohman, was at the scene of the mass forced vaccination of children in Maryland yesterday. He movingly describes the violation of basic human rights, and of the Declaration of Helsinki on Medical Experimentation*, by the local judge,
"...what I heard about what happened inside the CourtRoom scared me. We nonParents were prohibited from entry, and we heard the lines of moms with their kids to get shots was like a “cattle call,” with waiver offerings only barely mentioned or on display."
And "...when the Alex Jones noon Radio show interviewed Prince George’s State Attorney Glenn Ivey. Mr. Ivey claimed that parents were not being forced to immunize their kids; rather, to attend school they needed to make a choice between immunization or election of a waiver for either religious or medical contraindication reasons. He also said he did not immunize his own kids! I got a chance to interview the Prosecutor, and he reaffirmed that all that was needed was a choice that parents needed to make."
Get that: the Prosecutor knew his rights... but apparently neither he nor the Court made those rights clear to the parents.
And so it goes... with the choice becoming clearer, day by day: Health Freedom or Health Fascism!
To take action: www.globalhealthfreedom.org
One mother emailed me: "My concern is what Maryland is doing to those parents that do not want their children vaccinated. I have a step-grandson who almost died after having his shots. When his mother had our grandson, she refused to give him shots. He is 21 and has been very healthy. My daughter has two boys, 8 & 9. She refused to have them vaccinated. When chicken pox came to their school, the children who had been vaccinated got the chicken pox and my two grandsons, who had not been vaccinated, did not contact the chicken pox. The Amish do not vaccinate. Autism is not heard of in their colonies. So many parents with autistic children say, "They were fine until they got their shots." All those shots do is break down the immune system. What is happening to our country in the so called "health" regime that we can't take care of our own bodies???"
And another comment, this one from an ethical physician:
"...the purpose of vaccines is not to inoculate everyone, but inoculate enough in a given population to inhibit the spread of a highly contagious infectious disease. I suppose of 2/3 of individuals in a population which contacts each other frequently would receive a vaccine, the purpose of the practice would be achieved. Vaccines are not to protect each individual: unless they want it. It is a "public health" effort which is designed to inhibit the rapid movement of an infectious disease through a community. If we wanted to do that really well, we wouldn't allow foreigners who come from locals with endemic diseases like TB, rheumatic fever, AIDS, etcetera, ad nauseum into our country. To mandate inoculations is simply wrong by principle. Naturally, if some county officials, county commissioners no doubt, voted to do that when they were advised by some physician who was a paid member of the bureaucracy him or herself, indicates another episode of the disease of our country: bureaucrats have too much power..." - Lance Christiansen, D.O.
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* Yes, Charlie, vaccination is experimental medicine... never fully tested in the combinations forced on young children. See the Declaration of Helsinki: http://www.wma.net/e/policy/pdf/17c.pdf
Natural Solutions Foundation's Washington representative, Charlie Frohman, was at the scene of the mass forced vaccination of children in Maryland yesterday. He movingly describes the violation of basic human rights, and of the Declaration of Helsinki on Medical Experimentation*, by the local judge,
"...what I heard about what happened inside the CourtRoom scared me. We nonParents were prohibited from entry, and we heard the lines of moms with their kids to get shots was like a “cattle call,” with waiver offerings only barely mentioned or on display."
And "...when the Alex Jones noon Radio show interviewed Prince George’s State Attorney Glenn Ivey. Mr. Ivey claimed that parents were not being forced to immunize their kids; rather, to attend school they needed to make a choice between immunization or election of a waiver for either religious or medical contraindication reasons. He also said he did not immunize his own kids! I got a chance to interview the Prosecutor, and he reaffirmed that all that was needed was a choice that parents needed to make."
Get that: the Prosecutor knew his rights... but apparently neither he nor the Court made those rights clear to the parents.
And so it goes... with the choice becoming clearer, day by day: Health Freedom or Health Fascism!
To take action: www.globalhealthfreedom.org
One mother emailed me: "My concern is what Maryland is doing to those parents that do not want their children vaccinated. I have a step-grandson who almost died after having his shots. When his mother had our grandson, she refused to give him shots. He is 21 and has been very healthy. My daughter has two boys, 8 & 9. She refused to have them vaccinated. When chicken pox came to their school, the children who had been vaccinated got the chicken pox and my two grandsons, who had not been vaccinated, did not contact the chicken pox. The Amish do not vaccinate. Autism is not heard of in their colonies. So many parents with autistic children say, "They were fine until they got their shots." All those shots do is break down the immune system. What is happening to our country in the so called "health" regime that we can't take care of our own bodies???"
And another comment, this one from an ethical physician:
"...the purpose of vaccines is not to inoculate everyone, but inoculate enough in a given population to inhibit the spread of a highly contagious infectious disease. I suppose of 2/3 of individuals in a population which contacts each other frequently would receive a vaccine, the purpose of the practice would be achieved. Vaccines are not to protect each individual: unless they want it. It is a "public health" effort which is designed to inhibit the rapid movement of an infectious disease through a community. If we wanted to do that really well, we wouldn't allow foreigners who come from locals with endemic diseases like TB, rheumatic fever, AIDS, etcetera, ad nauseum into our country. To mandate inoculations is simply wrong by principle. Naturally, if some county officials, county commissioners no doubt, voted to do that when they were advised by some physician who was a paid member of the bureaucracy him or herself, indicates another episode of the disease of our country: bureaucrats have too much power..." - Lance Christiansen, D.O.
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* Yes, Charlie, vaccination is experimental medicine... never fully tested in the combinations forced on young children. See the Declaration of Helsinki: http://www.wma.net/e/policy/pdf/17c.pdf
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