To: Incorrigible
According to my pharmaceutical chemist wife, the herbal drug manufacturing process is long overdue for some oversight.Of course. They want control over supplements for the profits. It's a huge business. Once the FDA/WTO get control the pharm companies will claim only they can provide the proper controls. How many people have died from use of supplements? Even the ephedra-related deaths are questionable.
13 posted on
03/02/2005 3:13:34 AM PST by
raybbr
To: raybbr
Once the FDA/WTO get control the pharm companies will claim only they can provide the proper controls. And freemarketeers will be saying that pharm companies deserve high profits from the natural medicines. Hey, maybe they will PATENT them!
14 posted on
03/02/2005 4:29:53 AM PST by
A. Pole
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