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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Dumbo needs his magic feather.
The Philippines is probably gonn'a wake up in the next 5 years that made in the USA just might not be such a hot shit item, after all.
Geez, I’m old ... I underSTAND that.
Yet the side effects from FDA approved drugs isn’t a biggie. I guess some people like anal leakage, leukemia, suicidal thoughts, and sudden onset death.
I hate any type of deception — said me, Charley Pride.
Welcome to the Old Farts Club. We don’t meet because no-one can remember what day it’s on.
+1.
Neither are most of our elected officials.
Has Doc Wallach heard about this?
If it works, where’s the harm?
Sue them for fraud. Let the market fix the rest. No more government intervention in markets.
This needs to be a class action suit against Walmart for a few hundred million dollars. It’s totally despicable!
Yeah sure! That sounds just like the “ticket” for criminal behavior ... LOL ...
Doctor’s prescribe placebos. They are shown to be effective in some cases. The power of the mind is incredible.
If people were defrauded let them sue. I’m certain retailers like Walmart will take action and change policy to protect themselves and their shoppers. The market can fix it and will.
If a doctor writes a prescription, you can see exactly what it is that he wrote, and that’s exactly what the drugstore will fill ... exactly what he wrote (either brand name of the product or generic name of the product ... both being the same).
Now, Walmart doesn’t have a prescription for those off-the-shelf items, so what the label says it is better be exactly what it is ... or else it’s fraud and that’s criminal. “Labeling” must be exact and true, according to what the laws and agency rules require, or else there is no meaning to labels. That’s fundamental for labeling.
Many FDA approved medications don’t work, maim or kill tens of thousands - and perhaps hundreds of thousands.
Doctors and the medications they prescribe and the procedures they perform are the third leading cause of death in America.
Are there some vitamin manufacturers who cheat? Apparently so. Certainly not all.
Are there MANY drug manufacturers who fudge studies, take advantage of the revolving door between the FDA and private industry to gain crony insider status and profits, bribe doctors, use subterfuge to make it appear that studies they finance are objective, etc.?
Oh yeah.
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