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FDA Seeking to Outlaw IV Vitamin C, Other Nutrients

Friday, January 7th, 2011

FDA Seeking to Outlaw IV Vitamin C, Other Nutrients
Rep. Ron Paul, MD: As an agency, FDA engages in “abuse of power…”

“FDA: Leave Our Nutrients and Supplements Alone!”
Action item: http://tinyurl.com/saveIVNutrients

Archive of Emergency Web Meeting of January 9, 2011 here:
https://naturalsolutionsfoundation.webex.com/naturalsolutionsfoundation/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=2625702&rKey=9f5c8c59f61ba89a

March 9, 2011 – We Dissect a Response from the FDA! Click Here.

The FDA (the Food Destruction Agency) not content with its new power to control and industrialize our entire food supply, is, quite predictably, increasing its attacks on nutrients. Although the mis-named Food Safety [sic!] Modernization Act excludes nutrients, the FDA’s rampage against natural health is by no means limited to degrading our food supply.

DSHEA, the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act, which protects dietary supplements does not protect nutrients unless they are delivered in oral form. That means that intravenous, transdermal, nasal, suppository or other forms of nutrition are vulnerable to FDA assault in a particularly worrisome way. This latest action by the FDA makes that point clearly.

On December 28, 2010 FDA ordered certain small manufacturers to stop making IV Vitamin C and several other injectable nutrients which are always used under a (holistic or Advanced health Care) physician’s supervision by classifying IV Vitamin C, Magnesium and certain B Vitamins as “New Drugs”.

The nutrients under attack, which form the basis of the popular “Myers Cocktail” and countless therapies for serious diseases, may be provided ONLY by compounding pharmacies under a specific prescription for a specific patient. This means that the cost of these nutrients will increase sharply.

It also means that the FDA, always hostile to compounding pharmacies and the independent use of nutrients, bio-identical hormones (now banned at the request of Wyeth/Pfizer, which manufactures dangerous synthetic hormones), the biologically active form of Vitamin B-6 (also banned at the request of a drug company) can pick off individual substances and attack compounding pharmacies at their leisure. This is a result of the power granted FDA in 2007 (section 301(11) of the Kennedy FDA Enabling Act) to ban interstate sale of any “food” ever studied for medical use, even if never so used.

Why, you ask, does FDA need authority to ban safe foods? Why does Congress think it has the power to grant such authority? Where in the Constitution does Congress have that power? And please, don’t say it’s in the “Commerce Clause” which grants the Federal Government the power to regulate Interstate Commerce. “Regulate” does not mean the power to forbid foods that people have always had the fundamental human right to grow, trade and use. It merely means to make commerce regular; to make fair and neutral “rules of the road” for Interstate Commerce. Under the 9th Amendment, the People have retained the right to grow and trade foods, including vitamins and minerals. As we Restore the Republic, that right must be respected again.

Manufacturing companies wishing to make and sell the now restricted injectible, inexpensive and life-saving nutrients will be forced to engage in full-scale drug approval testing for products that cannot be patented; this, the FDA knows, is economically impossible. The attack on Vitamin C comes on the heels of efforts by FDA to ban other nutrients, including forms of Vitamin B6 banned under the Kennedy Enabling Act.

If these restrictions stand, what nutrient will be next?

Please take the Action Item at this link, which tells the White House and FDA to leave our nutrients alone! http://tinyurl.com/saveIVNutrients

Blog entry originally published at: http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2011/01/fda-seeking-to-outlaw-iv-vitamin-c.html

ONE OF OUR SUPPORTERS GOT A REPLY FROM THE FDA
ABOUT IV NUTRIENTS; WE DISSECT IT…

— On Wed, 3/9/11, CDER DRUG INFO wrote:

From: CDER DRUG INFO
Subject: RE: Leave our Nutrients Alone!
To: “‘[redacted]'” Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 8:53 AM

Dear P… B…

Thank you for your e-mail expressing concerns about FDA’s December 28, 2010 warning letter to an individual manufacturer (McGuff Pharmaceuticals Inc.) of intravenous (IV) vitamin C along with other prescription drugs.

Unlike oral vitamin C-which could be a dietary supplement- these particular IV solutions are, by law, unapproved drugs. Moreover, the manufacturers neglected to follow current good manufacturing practices, potentially exposing users to unnecessary risks.

Such risks have occurred before. In the E-Ferol tragedy of 1983, premature babies received E-Ferol, an intravenous form of vitamin E. E-Ferol was associated with adverse reactions in 100 premature infants, forty of whom died. It is highly likely that this tragedy would have been prevented if the product had been reviewed and approved by the FDA before its introduction to the market.

Since FDA announced its Unapproved Drugs Initiative in June 2006, marketers of unapproved drugs have been on notice that addressing risks from unapproved drugs is a high priority for FDA, and that the Agency plans to systematically and responsibly ensure that all products on the U.S. prescription drug market become compliant with current FDA approval requirements for safety and efficacy.

The mission of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) is to ensure that safe and effective drugs are available to the American public. Drugs that have not been approved by FDA may not be safe and effective, may have been manufactured under sub-standard conditions, may contain too much or too little (if any) active ingredients, and may not have necessary labeling information and warnings.

FDA’s drug approval process ensures that drugs are safe, effective, of a suitable quality and purity, and are properly labeled. The Agency remains committed to assisting all firms with meeting these standards.

Again, we thank you for your input and hope that we were able to address your concerns.

Best regards,

Division of Drug Information – JD
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration

For up-to-date drug information, follow the FDA’s Division of Drug Information on Twitter at FDA_Drug_Info

This communication is consistent with 21CFR10.85(k) and constitutes an informal communication that represents our best judgment at this time but does not constitute an advisory opinion, does not necessarily represent the formal position of the FDA, and does not bind or otherwise obligate or commit the agency to the views expressed.

Please note: the above statement, in our humble opinion, misstates the law. The various laws passed by Congress over the decades continually adding to the FDA’s power all include “grandfather” clauses allowing products that existed when the various laws were adopted — IV nutrition has been used for a very long time. Andrew St Georgie received the Nobel Prize as one of the discoverers of Vitamin C in 1937. Frederick Klenner, M.D used IV Vitamin C in the 1940s. It was used IV well before the 1952 authorization by Congress giving FDA authority over the “safety and efficacy” of drugs (before that time, FDA only had authority over misbranded or adulterated drugs). rf

“From 1943 through 1947,” writes Robert Landwehr (3), “Dr. Klenner reported successful treatment of 41 more cases of viral pneumonia using massive doses of vitamin C. From these cases he learned what dosage and route of administration – intravenously, intramuscularly, or orally – was best for each patient. Dr. Klenner gave these details in a February 1948 paper published in the Journal of Southern Medicine and Surgery entitled ‘Virus Pneumonia and Its Treatment with Vitamin C.’ (4) This article was the first of Dr. Klenner’s twenty-eight (through 1974) scientific publications.”

It might be interesting to learn how poliomyelitis was treated in Reidsville, N.C., during the 1948 epidemic. In the past seven years, virus infections have been treated and cured in a period of seventy-two hours by the employment of massive frequent injections of ascorbic acid, or vitamin C. I believe that if vitamin C in these massive doses – 6,000 to 20,000 mg in a twenty-four hour period – is given to these patients with poliomyelitis none will be paralyzed and there will be no further maiming or epidemics of poliomyelitis.’ Levy concludes: “The four doctors who commented after Klenner did not have anything to say about his assertions.”

Klenner administered ascorbate by injection, and, as Lendon H. Smith describes in great detail in the Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C: The Clinical Experiences of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., Klenner found that “the most effective route was intravenous, but the intramuscular route was satisfactory. He gave at least 350 mg per kilogram of body weight.” That quantity per day is a dose of 25,000-30,000 mg or so for an adult. Yet, Smith adds, “With 350 mg per kilogram of body weight every two hours, he could stop measles and dry up chicken pox.”

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerbio.html

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An Open Letter from Dr. Rima to Michelle Obama on Food Safety

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

FUNDACIÓN DE SOLUCIONES NATURAL
NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION
RIMA E. LAIBOW, MD – THE DR. RIMA INSTITUTE
THE NATURAL SOLUTIONS CENTER
VOLCAN, CHIRIQUÍ, PANAMA

Index: Action Item – Open Letter – Dr. Rima Video

Dr. Rima to Michelle Obama
Action Item to the White House
“Michelle, please intervene…”
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421

Open letter to Michelle Obama from Dr. Rima

Dear Mrs. Obama,

I am writing to you because you are a mother, a champion of childhood health and the wife of the current President of the United States. One of your first acts upon assuming the third of those roles, as First Lady, was to install an organic garden on the White House grounds. We applaud that demonstration of intent.

Although there were problems — (the EPA said that the ground in which the garden was planted was too toxic for human agricultural use because of the chemicals used on it previously, in order to manicure the lawn) — and opposition (the pesticide industry felt – correctly – that your decision to grow an organic garden indicated that chemical-free food was healthier than food produced using those chemicals). Thus, your decision to plant an organic garden was an act of wise, even courageous, leadership.

We note your background interest in wholesome food and decry the much-weakened, but still unacceptable mis-named “Food Safety” bill, passed [after being passed back and forth between House and Senate, like the hot-potato is was].

This new law industrializes food production in the United States. The weak local farm distribution exemptions are, in fact, nearly meaningless and the playing field is sharply tilted against the only source of clean food in the United States: the small grower who might, until the implementation of this bill, have chosen to grow clean, unadulterated food, but now will find ever more expensive barriers against continuing in business.

To be truly clean food it must be free of chemicals, genetic modification and odious secret regulations by the Department of Homeland Security. That locally produced and distributed clean food is, in fact, a food source which has NEVER produced a single major outbreak of food borne illness, while commercial, industrialized, GMO and chemically gown “phactory phud” [“It taste something like real food, but it ain’t.”] is responsible for every single episode of such illness.

Not counted in the statistics on food borne illness, however, is what the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization list in their joint 2003 publication (http://www.who.int/hpr/NPH/docs/who_fao_expert_report.pdf) as PREVENTABLE, NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF UNDER-NUTRITION: cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, diabetes and obesity.

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These are also food borne diseases, Mrs. Obama, and they are killing us, and our children, at increasing rates because the oversight of the FDA, now newly empowered by this new legislation with 4000 new agents intruding on small farmers to bring their practices into “compliance” with those of the same agribiz operations which are killing us by damaging our food. This will not improve food safety!

Secret regulations (permitted in section 104) promulgated by the most inefficient and non-transparent organ of the US Government will not improve food safety. Relying on local inspectors with local interests, and on local producer organizations would continue the best food safety record in the world, from which our localities already benefit. If this bill is signed into law, the regulations issued under the new law will determine whether local production and distribution can continue to meet consumer needs. These regulations need to protect important interests, including:

a. Implementing the exemption for local production and distribution in the least burdensome way.
b. Assuring that Section 104’s “in the interest of national security” clause is not used to create secret regulations favoring Big AgBiz and,
c. No “back-door” HARMonization of our food freedoms with international Codex Alimentarius restrictions.

What will improve food safety is for the President of the United States, who, like you, is a parent, and who eats food which either makes him sick or promotes his health, to veto this bill. That would be the best outcome for the People, but not for Big AgBiz.

The industrialization of the food supply, which this bill accelerates, has brought the US epidemic degenerative, preventable, tragic and costly disease. The acceleration of this process through this unnecessary and profoundly unwise bill will aid the pharmaceutical companies and their agricultural/biotech arms, but will hasten and intensify the incidence and prevalence of the preventable illness and death, including the epidemics of diabetes, obesity, cancer and cardiovascular diseases killing us at younger and younger ages.

Mrs. Obama, I urge you in your capacities as wife, mother and First Lady, to bend every effort to urge President Obama to veto this legislation and bend his every effort to create true food safety in the United States by supporting clean agriculture, banning the use of GMO foods in the United States and restoring health to the American people by preserving their Food Freedom — restoring clean food on their tables.

Sincerely,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
www.DrRima.net

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BETRAYED BY THE GOP – S.510/HR.2751 Back to House Tuesday 12.21. PUSH BACK NEEDED!

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty…”
“No one’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”

12.21.10 LATE UPDATE: HOUSE PASSES BILL… “This is how freedom dies…”
https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=7853

Please forward this link; help make it “go viral” – http://tinyurl.com/GOPbetrayal

12.20.10 – Revised Action item:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395

The betrayal Sunday 12.19.10 of the Health and Food Freedom movement [and the Tea Party, Liberty, Farm/Ranch/Garden groups working with us] by the GOP Senators in passing S.510/HR.2751 back to the House with an unrecorded Unanimous Consent vote is unacceptable. We condemn the GOP for this betrayal.

12.21.10 – Update: Ron Paul’s office says the vote on HR.2751 will probably happen this afternoon or early evening. The word is that the vote will be very close (the food control bill last passed the House 212-206 with 17 not voting).

Follow the action in the House: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
Clerk’s Floor Summary: http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html

According to The Hill:

12.20.10 – “The Senate unexpectedly approved food safety legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/food-safety/134447-in-sunday-evening-surprise-senate-passes-food-safety-bill-by-unanimous-consent

Our so-called friends in the Senate had assured us they would object to any effort to pass S.510, the fake “food safety” (really, “food control”) in the last days of the lame-duck congressional session. We feel betrayed. We pledge not to forget! S.510 has been attached to HR.2751 and has the unconstitutional revenue raising clause removed.

The office of Sen Coburn, who failed to live up to his pledge to refuse any unanimous consent, tells us the majority party had enough GOP support to close off debate and force the bill through anyway. We say, that’s no excuse! Sorry Senator, the GOP has lost our trust. By making a dirty deal to avoid a recorded vote the GOP failed the test of transparency.

ONE LAST CHANCE TO STOP FASCIST FOOD CONTROL IN THE HOUSE!
THE HOUSE NEXT MEETS TUESDAY… HOURS TO SAVE FOOD FREEDOM!

“Why,” one writer asked us, “did you say betrayed as though the GOP Senators were traitors to the cause of Freedom?” Why? Because that is the truth and we always seek to speak truth to power! We didn’t expect protection for our Liberties from the majority party, but the wimp-out by the GOP, which promised us so much, is not acceptable. We will not forget!

December 21, 2010: the critical moment is here!
Please use this Action Item over and over again this morning and all day!
ONLY YOUR PUSH BACK CAN SAVE US NOW!

KEEP ON PUSHING BACK!
PLEASE USE THE NEW ACTION ITEM EVERY DAY…
OFTEN! And Forward It to Your Contacts!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395

A message from General Bert:

“The sweet smell of victory… or the stench of defeat… which is in the air? We must encourage the faint-of-heart to persevere. By the end of any battle, both sides are exhausted, but the side that perseveres just a little longer… wins! That is where we are now, and that is why massive Push Back is more important now than before! We are flooding the lame-duck Congress with a clear message: “No Food Control Bill! Strip S.510/HR.2751 out of any pending bill!” Keep at it! Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act with you now!”

Natural Solutions’ Trustee Ralph Fucetola JD’s personal take on this:
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/12/senate-gop-betrayal-on-s510-personal.html

Please support our efforts at this critical time! Donate here:
https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=189

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LATE BREAKING NEWS: OMNIBUS WITH FOOD CONTROL DONE FOR!

Friday, December 17th, 2010

LATE BREAKING NEWS: OMNIBUS WITH FOOD CONTROL DONE FOR!
If We continue to Push Back!

Natural Solutions Foundation
Your Voice of Global Health & Food Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org –

The various attempts by Big AgraBiz and DC Politicians to force the fake “food safety” bill, actually the food control bill, through the Congress is failing because hundreds of thousands of messges are flooding the “lame-duck” Congress from citizens demanding: Don’t Adopt Any Bill that Includes S.510!

The counterpoint rumor is that Sen. Harry Reid is desperate to add S.510 into one of several more bills that may reach the floor of the Senate before adjourning for the Holidays…

New Action Item: Support Simple C.R.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395

Lame Duck Congress

Lame Duck Congress

From the Senate Calendar: “Thursday, Dec 16, 2010 – The Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 8:36 p.m. No record votes were taken.”

From Breitbart: “Democrats controlling the Senate have abandoned a 1,924-page catchall spending measure that’s laced with homestate pet projects known as earmarks and that would have provided another $158 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9K5BA5O0&show_article=1

“Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) touts his one-page continuing resolution that would “simply continue the government through February 18th.”

From RealClearPolitics: “I would hope that it would make sense on a bipartisan basis, this one-page continuing resolution on Feb 18th as an alternative to this 2,000-page monstrosity that spends a half a billion dollars a page,” McConnell said on the Senate floor.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/12/16/mcconnell_dems_using_christmas_break_as_an_inducement_to_pass_omnibus.htm

Congratulations Mouse Warriors!

This message from Health Freedom USA’s President, Gen. Stubblebine: “The smell of victory is in the air… we must encourage the faint-of-heart Senators to persevere. And get ready to blast ‘em if they turn-tail to run! By the end of any battle, both sides are exhausted, but the side that perseveres just a little longer… wins! That is where we are now, and that is why massive Push Back is more important now than before! We are flooding the Congress with a clear message: No New Programs in the Continuing Resolution; Strip S.510 out of any funding bill! Keep at it! Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act with you now!”

Health Freedom USA
www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
Dr. Rima Reports: Sunday 9 to Noon, Central

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House Slips Fake “Food Safety” Bill into Funding Bill, Passes Hot Potato to Senate Again

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation
Your Voice of Global Health & Food Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org – www.HealthFreedomPortal.org

Action Item Updated:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

The latest word from Senator Coburn’s office (Friday, December 10, 2010): No voting in the Senate today. Next week the Senate will take up the tax bill (to continue present rates) first and then go on to the Continuing Resolution. The minority party has strong reservations about the CR (HR.3082) in part because it provides funding for Obamacare and other additional funding (which means it does more than just merely “continue” Federal programs) and includes added funding for the thousands of new FDA positions that S.510 mandates. Will the GOP stand firm on its pledge not to fund more excess government? Please continue sending messages to your Senators!

For those of you who didn’t follow Wednesday’s events on Twitter or C-Span, the House lame-duck “leadership” pushed the “Food Safety” Bill, formerly known as S.510 into the “Continuing Resolution” Funding Bill to keep the Federal Govt running for another year, passing this Hot Potato to Senate again.

It is apparent how important this fake “food safety” bill is to The Powers That Be — it is very unusual to attach a major regulatory initiative to the Continuing Resolution.

The House vote appears to have been 212 to 206, with no Republicans voting for the bill. The next step is to continue inundating the Senate with voter outrage.

1. It is bad legislative practice to combine a controversial regulatory bill with the Continuing Resolution needed to fund govt activities.

2. It is unprincipled to push this bill against the clear will of the voters that the Federal govt is too big and must stop over-regulating.

3. A clean Continuing Resolution is needed so that Congress can decide to continue funding at a certain level without muddying the process with extraneous matters.

4. The vote was nearly a pure partisan vote, with no Republicans in favor of this maneuver, and only a few Democrats standing against the lame-duck “leadership.” We will remember!

5. The People will keep a close eye on all GOP Senators and expect them to act from principle and not add this budget-busting bill, with its 4,000 new FDA agents to harass local food production and distribution.

We were “on the Hill” today to let our friends in Congress know that “CAM” health care practices (what we prefer to all “Complementary and Advanced Modalities”) need to have a voice in the debate over health care and to re-enforce our opposition to S.510, the fake food safety bill.

We agree with Congressman Paul (who we also saw today) that it is bad legislative process to tack a a very controversial regulatory bill to the Continuing Resolution needed to fund govt activities.

This bill will impact dietary supplements. That is clear from the way the FDA used section 301(11) of the 2007 FDA “enabling act” to outlaw a form of Vitamin B-6, although Congress put a clause in that bill “exempting” DSHEA products.

FDA will use any new food authority to attack supplements and natural remedies, just as it used its enhanced powers under the 2007 FDA “enabling act” to ban the interstate sale of a form of Vitamin B-6.

Please help us stop S.510 as a tack-on to HR 3082.

Action Item Updated:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

Ron Paul, me and some of our Heroes…

Rion Paul and Ralph Fucetola

Rion Paul and Ralph Fucetola

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