Posted on 02/05/2015 12:56:49 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Bottles of Walmart-brand echinacea, an herb said to ward off colds, were found to contain no echinacea at all. GNC-brand bottles of St. John's wort, touted as a cure for depression, held rice, garlic and a tropical houseplant, but not a trace of the herb.
In fact, DNA testing on hundreds of bottles of store-brand herbal supplements sold as treatments for everything from memory loss to prostate trouble found that four out of five contained none of the herbs on the label. Instead, they were packed with cheap fillers such as wheat, rice, beans or houseplants.
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Think about a fraud that works. Where’s the harm?
I tell you I can diviner a Spanish silver mine. You pay me a million. I know I can’t do it. I’m a fake, but I go out with you and walk my diviner rod right into a Spanish sliver mine.
I’m shocked and confess to being a fake. What charge do you bring before the court?
Why would the New York attorney general choose to commission Biologist James Schulte as their “expert in DNA technology”? This guy has authored or coauthored about 50 papers on Lizards. Does New york state have no “Plant Genetics” experts in their university system?
As I said ... it very simply comes down to the “labeling” ... or better known as “truth in labeling”. You either have truth in labeling or else labeling is useless.
“If people were defrauded let them sue.”
The idiots are so brainwashed they think the scam stuff works.
Like my wife’s daughter says: “I did my research. There are lots of articles on the internet.”
Not to mention the 24/7 TV commercials.
Oh yeah, it has to work. Dr. Oz says so.
There is only truth and anything less is a lie, but we’re discussing the law.
if there is a count going on, we must be up to ... I don't know ... 7 or 8 thousand absolutely MUST have in your diet/routine supliments/natural 'foods' for better pooping ...
and he's STILL full of shit
Herbs, homeopathy, biotics.
Amazing how brainwashed people are.
The law is simply that if the label says it’s there, it better be there ... :-) ...
“The law is simply that if the label says its there, it better be there ... :-) “
But the label doesn’t say how much is there and what else is there.
I haven’t looked at that particular label, but the labels I look at ... in terms of the active ingredient that I’m getting (whatever that might be) it has always said what the quantity is. At least that is what I buy, anyway.
THAT would be ONE CLUE that would tell me to NOT buy the product, when the active ingredient that I’m buying isn’t clearly identified as to the exact quantity in the pill or bottle or liquid (depending on what it is).
SO ... let that be a warnings me to people ... if they don’t tell you exactly how much is there ... DON’T BUY IT! ... :-) ...
Labeling laws are just meddlesome regulation. Let the market rule.
I thought it was strange that Germany has herbals approved for sale by the FDA but after this, now I know why.
I’m 100% behind labeling as that serves the market in making the determination.
I smell dog sized rats with this.
To start with, big pharma has been trying to totally wipe out the supplements industry for a long time, and have been particularly dishonest about doing so. In recent years, they have gone so far as to say that vitamins should be banned unless through a doctor’s prescription (at 10x-1000x the cost, unsaid).
And they have come very close to their goal several times. During at least two of these, only senator Orrin Hatch stood in their way.
In past, claims that OTC supplements were adulterated or counterfeit have been used before. And the major producers of supplements have gone to lengths to insure their products are what they say they are. Including using independent quality control testing organizations.
So let’s allow this sensational headline to rest a while and see if it holds up under scrutiny.
“Herbs, homeopathy, biotics.”
Herbs are the basis of many drugs.
Homeopathy sounds weird, but at least some of it works.
Biotics - don’t know that one.
“Homeopathy sounds weird, but at least some of it works.”
ROTFLMAO ....
I’ll bet almost any amount of money that they suppliers are in china.
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ROTFLMAO ....
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I’ve used Traumeel cream on a sprained ankle and the swelling went down within 35-40 minutes. I’ve seen it work on my kids too. By what mechanism or avenue of approach? Got me.
Prescription drugs kill 38 times more people than gunshots.
The majority of all prescription drugs are made in whole or in part with ingredients from China.
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