Posted on 06/04/2011 6:29:25 AM PDT by ruralvoter
Federal authorities have seized bottles and drums of elderberry juice concentrate from a Kansas winery, contending that the company's claims of its benefits for treating various diseases make the product a drug. (snip)
The government contends the juice concentrate is an unapproved and misbranded drug because the winery claims it is used to treat diseases such as the flu, cancer and AIDS.
"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."
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
The Terri Schiavo precedent of water being a drug should give the FDA all they need to kill us all. At this rate.
But don't you dare call it a racket.
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...
Blueberries too. I hope you all didn’t like them in pancakes and muffins. They have a long history of medicinal uses so they’re right out.
Yet they won’t seize the snake oil being sold to us by the President . . . some animals are more equal than others.
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.
Serious answer is that a bad depression will take you so far down that killing yourself is just too much trouble.
A anti-depressant that is just strong enough to allow you to think a bit more clearly but not strong enough to lift you out leaves you in the danger zone. Clear enough to do it, not clear enough to see it is not the answer.
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.
you beat me to it.
- Hippocrates
LOL! The first thing I thought of when I saw the title.
Sounds like something out of a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. “Pa, there’s revenuers in the elderberry patch!”
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.
Maybe we should send the FDA to seize the Elder Wand! This would protect Voldemort from its series consequencher.
Drunk all the time
Feeling fine on elderberry wine
Those were the days
We’d lay in the haze
Forget depressive times
How can I ever get it together
Without a wife in line
To pick the crop and get me hot
On elderberry wine
- Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Maybe we should send the FDA to seize the Elder Wand! This would protect Voldemort from its series consequencher.
No kidding. And don’t forget mushrooms. They’re brain food. And onions. They’re blood cleaner. And raw parsley should just be outlawed or classified as a C2 because its health benefits are so vast.
I am so tired of the government being in my business. Something’s gotta give.
There are always side affects with any medication. Sometimes very nasty side affects. Some short term, others long term.
The question should be is the “cure” worse than then original ailment. This is pretty simple but I wonder how many people consider it.
Seizing the juice really *is* over the top. The company says it changed the labels as requested in 2006; if the new labels aren’t satisfactory, why not just tell them they have to come up with something better?
That said, I also see a lot of misinformation, and people believing outright wacky things about health related issues. (A garlic clove in the ear to cure infection? Honestly???) My contempt for those who engage in selling snake oil “cures” to people who lack understanding of science is boundless.
Like it or not, there is a constitutional case to be made for the existence of the FDA. The constitutional mandate of the government is to protect citizens, and the FDA is one form of protection. Without some sort of watchdog to protect people from snake oil salesmen, how is the average citizen whose science background consists of the two or three courses they took in high school supposed to separate fact from fiction when presented with a sales pitch full of scientific-sounding jargon? Shady scammers know what is effective when it comes to separating people from their money.
The reasons people fall for snake oil “remedies” are multitude. I’m quite happy to see a regulatory agency working to keep those scammers in check. BUT—like any regulatory agency, the agency itself needs to be watched.
And poppy seeds... they are a controlled substance in large quantities. :)
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