[Brilliant]

Why not simply tell them to stop making the claim?

[Vigilantcitizen]

"Products with unapproved disease claims are dangerous because they may cause consumers to delay or avoid legitimate treatments, Dara Corrigan, the FDA's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, said in a news release. "The FDA is committed to protecting consumers from unapproved products on the market."

I don't need your help. Now run along to the lunch with the drug company lobbyists and collect your protection money.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Yes we need more government. Our nation is insolvent and we pay govt officials to seize elderberry wine.
Nice. I’m sure the Founders had this in mind.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Snake-oil claims? Yet, the government keeps saying they can control the weather...

[pieceofthepuzzle]

This is so big brother that it is scary.

People were copper bracelets, sleep with magnets, take mega vitamins, buy organic vegetables, go to ‘holistic’ centers, etc. etc. etc. As a doc, I don’t believe anything is therapeutic unless I see data, but it’s not the government’s right to prevent people from using these things.

It’s also not the government’s right to force people to take things for which there is data justifying use. It’s called freedom. I once lived in a country premised on freedom.

[commish]

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

[MulberryDraw]

Wyldewood Cellars owner John Brewer said his company changed the labels as the FDA had requested in 2006.

maybe they didn't anticipate the hope and change.

[Elderberry]

“Products with unapproved disease claims are dangerous because they may cause consumers to delay or avoid legitimate treatments”

The legitimate treatments may not always be better for you.

[nuconvert]

sheesh, cranberry juice & pomegranate juice are next

[LonePalm]

If claims make juice a drug, than my chili is a sovereign remedy for what ails you.

'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[dawn53]

Wasn’t it Elderberry wine that the Aunts used to disguise the poison in Arsenic and Old Lace? :)

[mountainlion]

Meanwhile:
120,000 die form bad prescriptions again this year!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Drugs are a federal monopoly, you see, and the federal government franchises its monopoly to deserving corporations for monetary consideration.

But don't you dare call it a racket.

[TangoLimaSierra]

People need the govt to make sure they don’t ingest bad stuff that might kill them. I mean half the country was stupid enough to vote for obammy...Hey, wait a minute...

[RatRipper]

Yet they won’t seize the snake oil being sold to us by the President . . . some animals are more equal than others.

[Texas Eagle]

"The FDA is committed to protecting consumers from unapproved products on the market."

Uh-huh. That explains why every other commercial on TV is an ad from a law firm seeking clients to sue the makers of one or another of about a thousand different pharmaceuticals.

[Pollster1]

"Products with unapproved disease claims are dangerous because they may cause consumers to delay or avoid legitimate treatments, Dara Corrigan, the FDA's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, said in a news release. "The FDA is committed to protecting consumers from unapproved products on the market."

The claimed benefits of wasteful federal spending also dangerously cause Americans to delay or avoid the proper treatments: getting off their tails and making their own lives better through hard work on their own part. I would send a letter to Corrigan, pointing out how helpful this was and asking that he respond similarly to the federal budget . . . except there isn't even a federal budget this year. The socialists in our Senate and the Communist in our White House have gone far beyond what I ever imagined real Americans would tolerate. But we're smarter than a frog being boiled slowly. I hope.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food"

- Hippocrates

[USMCPOP]

Sounds like something out of a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. “Pa, there’s revenuers in the elderberry patch!”

[lacrew]

I have been to this business. It is not a ‘new age remedy’ place. Its just a place that sells wine. I’ve seen the Elderberry bottle...and I almost took the health claims on it as tongue in cheek. I don’t think anybody really believes it cures aids, etc. It was just a fun homage to all the healing power attributed to elderberry.