Doing FDA’s Dirty Work: Amazon Pulls Popular Supplement So Big Pharma Can Profit

The High Wire ^ | 3.21.23 | Tracy Beanz & Michelle Edwards

[spacejunkie2001]

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.

[dennisw]

I will take your cofactors’ advice. I have an epub book on iodine. If you want it let me know

Try this if at home and on yr computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kd2uRkzmuI

[dennisw]

Iodoral is precise Iodine dosage

[spacejunkie2001]

that IS relaxing!

[dennisw]

“that IS relaxing!”

Of course just the audio in the background. I am not watching it......lolzzzz

You can find more nature sounds on YouTube that are 10 hours. This is my favorite bird’s chirping sound. You can buy a white noise sound machine that will have just one birds option. But mine loops every 40 seconds or so. But I use this too. It all depends.