Posted on 03/21/2023 4:52:13 PM PDT by COSIllinois
Amazon—the vast global internet enterprise that single-handedly shuttered countless smaller retailers—is putting the interests of big pharma ahead of the health and well-being of its customers. In a move that surely pleases the FDA and pharmaceutical companies, Amazon decided last month to no longer sell nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), a molecule naturally occurring in all life forms and vital in longevity. On the cutting edge of lifespan research, Amazon’s decision to remove NMN products is unrelated to safety issues. Instead, it hinges on a recent FDA decision announcing that because NMN is under investigation by big pharma as a potential new drug, it can no longer be marketed as a supplement. With the FDA’s corruption in full view thanks to COVID, this isn’t the first time the agency has allowed pharmaceutical giants to turn natural ingredients into profitable drugs while banning the affordable supplement version.
Like many health-related choices tainted by government bureaucracy, there is, of course, a somewhat convoluted and complicated backstory behind how this can happen. But to be brief, the FDA can remove a healthy natural product from store shelves because of the preclusion provision of Section 201 (ff) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This provision states that before a company can market any “new dietary ingredient” (NDI)—which means any ingredients that weren’t sold “in or as a supplement” before 1994—it must first submit a notification to the FDA with studies proving its safety. The guidance appears relatively straightforward, but not when, as is the case with NMN, the FDA deliberately blurs the lines.
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Mama Shawna
Monopoly communists gotta monopoly.
Big pharma and the FDA have been working hard to turn NAC into a prescription drug for years. Damn near did last year.
They did the same thing to NAC, but other distributors fought back and beat them.
I remember that!!
My SENATOR DICKIE DURBIN.
Dick Dick, BEFORE Dick-Dicks-YOU!
figures. anything i take, they ban.
Looked and nac and nad are available through LifeExtension.com.
Also Swanson Vitamins.
Bkmk
Little Dick Durbin.
If y’all recall correctly the illustrious Senator Johnny McCain tried to pull supplements off the market completely. I think on a couple of different occasions, but he was unsuccessful. Johnny Mac was trying to squash any kind of competition between supplements and big Pharma.
I take solace he is in a warm place right now.
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I never even heard of nicotinamide mononucleotide. Now I have to look into it.
Two years ago they pulled NAC, btu it’s back now.
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