LOL, Fraud discovery institute???  LOL.  You pharma shills never miss
a trick.

I guess a 2 trillion dollar business can afford to fund such lunicy to
help guarantee its continued profitability.

DrCee
You cannot secure nor restore health with pus or poisons.

One of the things that ought to be remembered is that the Founder of
Herbalife, Mark Hughes, died from "natural causes" at age 44.

Here's an article about that:

Herbalife founder Hughes dies in Calif. home
Reuters, May 22, 2000

LOS ANGELES - Mark Hughes, the controversial 44-year-old founder,
chairman and chief executive of nutritional and diet products maker
Herbalife International Inc., was found dead in his $25 million
beachfront mansion, apparently of natural causes, officials said
Monday.

The handsome hard-driving businessman, who sparred with regulators in
the 1980s and who made an unsuccessful bid to take his company private
last month, was found dead in his sleep by family members at about 11
a.m. Sunday (2 p.m. EDT) in his palatial Malibu home.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's deputies said there were
no signs of foul play and the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said
an autopsy would be performed this week to determine the cause of
death.

A company spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said that Hughes
had spent his last days at home with family and celebrated his
grandmother's 84th birthday over the weekend.

``This comes as a sudden shock to his friends, relatives, and
associates who knew him well,'' the spokesman said.

``Those that have spent time around him saw no reason to suspect
anything that would have led to this tragedy,'' the spokesman said.

In a statement, Herbalife officials said the company was ''deeply
saddened'' and added that they wanted to reassure employees,
distributors, customers, shareholders and vendors, that plans were
under way to ensure that the company continued with the spirit and
vitality of the founder's vision.

Hughes founded the Los Angeles-based maker of weight-loss and
nutritional products in 1980, inspired, he said on his Web site,
because his mother ``totally destroyed her entire life just trying to
lose 30 pounds.'' She died from a drug overdose when Hughes was 18.

Hughes was sued in the 1980s by the Food and Drug Administration, the
California attorney general's office, and the state Department of
Health, over what they said were false health claims about Herbalife
products and various marketing schemes.

In 1985 in a hearing before a panel of U.S. senators, he defended his
diet powders and pills by challenging the scientific experts who
questioned the safety of his products: ``If they're such experts, then
why are they fat? I've lost 16 pounds in the last few years.''

During the same hearing Hughes admitted that his own education ended
at the 9th grade, but that he felt confident in his products
nonetheless, adding: ``I defy anybody to be able to produce results as
this company has.''
Hughes reached settlements with the regulatory agencies in 1986, the
same year the company went public.

The company thrived through a worldwide network of more than 750,000
independent distributors who bought Herbalife products through a
multilevel marketing program and resold them to consumers.
In recent months, Hughes had been in a fight to buy back all the
shares of company and make it private. But he was unsuccessful in
securing financing to buy out shareholders.

The $510-million buyout plan, announced last September, collapsed in
April. At the same time as he trying to raise money to take his
company private, he was also battling neighbors over plans to build a
45,000-square-foot mansion along a star-studded craggy swatch of the
Santa Monica mountains, on land once owned by the Shah of Iran's
sister.

The house would have been larger than the White House, taller than the
famed Hollywood sign itself, and about the size as the Hearst Castle's
main structure.
Already a homeowner in Malibu, Beverly Hills and Maui, Hughes had said
he wanted a new home for his three children and new bride, Darcy La
Pier, the ex-wife of actor Jean-Claude Van Damme.

He had bought the 157-acre plot from Merv Griffin in 1997, who had
incensed locals once already by bulldozing the highest ridge for a six-
home development that never materialized.

In October city lawmakers ruled in Hughes' favor and he began moving
on his plans for the $50 million house which included 25 rooms, a
tennis pavilion, a large guardhouse and a million-gallon pond.

Herbalife class A stock closed down 1-3/16 at a 52-week low of 8-11/16
in late afternoon trading on Nasdaq, well off its year high of 16-3/8.
The class B shares closed down 1-1/16 at a 52-week low of 8, against a
year high of 16-1/4.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/herbalife/herbalife4.html

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FDA named "Fraud and Drug Administration" by consumer health advocacy group

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, under sharp criticism for its drug
safety behavior involving anti-inflammatory drugs, antidepressants, and the
silencing of its own drug safety scientists, has been offered a new name
today: the Fraud and Drug Administration.
The winning name was chosen from among hundreds of entries submitted by
health consumers fed up with the FDA's apparent mission to protect the
profits of drug companies. Other name ideas submitted by health consumers
include:

Faster Death to Americans
Failure to Defend Americans
Fact Distortion Agency
Fund Dubya's Administration
Forever Drug Americans
Fraudulent Drug Approvals
Furtherment of Disease Alliance
Farcical Drug Authority
Federal Disinformation Association
Favoring Draconian Actions
Federal Drug Advocates
Facilitating the Drugging of America
Falsify and Distort Agency
Fatal Death Agency

The contest was initiated by NaturalNews.com editor Mike Adams, a consumer
advocate and outspoken critic of the FDA who has called for a criminal
investigation of the FDA and Vioxx manufacturer Merck. Just this week, the
U.S. Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into Merck's
apparent cover-up in neglecting to pull Vioxx off the market even though the
company was apparently aware that the drug substantially increased the risk
of heart attacks, strokes and sudden death, according to internal emails
published by the Wall Street Journal.

The FDA is also under intense scrutiny by legislators. In recent Senate
hearings, medical scientist David Graham, who conducts drug safety research
for the FDA, described the agency as "incapable of protecting America." He
also stated his belief that Vioxx may be responsible for well over 100,000
heart attacks and strokes, not the 27,000 that has been widely reported.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has called for new oversight of the FDA,
asserting that the agency has misled the American public on multiple
occasions.

NaturalNews.com readers have been following the ongoing Merck / FDA scandal
through a series of blogs and commentary posted by Adams, a 35 year old
holistic nutritionist who pubicly posts his own blood chemistry lab results
as proof that Americans don't need prescription drugs to be healthy. (His
own LDL cholesterol is 67.) Adams characterizes the FDA / drug company
cooperation as a "drug racket" designed to squeeze consumers for profits at
the expense of public safety.

"I was ecstatic to see the level of participation in this FDA naming
contest," Adams explained. "It indicates there is widespread discontent
among the public concerning the FDA's actions on Vioxx and other drugs. It
says that the American public is fed up with being lied to by the FDA and
drug companies. The people are demanding serious FDA reform."

http://www.naturalnews.com/z002439.html

For more information, visit www.NaturalNews.com

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=47&contentid=2254

FDA Fraud: New Studies Prove Vaccines Cause Autism

On Feb 9, 2004, the National Autism Association issued a press release that
reported on one of the larger studies under review based on the Center for
Disease Control's Vaccine Safety Datalink. Under independent investigation,
the Association reported, of the CDC's data children were found to be
27-times more likely to develop autism after exposure to three
thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCVs), than those who receive
thimerosal-free versions.

Let that sink in.

Twenty-seven times more likely to develop autism. Then consider that our
government regulatory agencies had this information for years and
deliberately kept it hidden from the public.

This failure to warn the public was not due to negligence
or laziness, it was a deliberate cover-up and it continues today.

How do we know they had it for years? Because the staff for Rep Dan Burton
(R-Ill) obtained an FDA internal e-mail written on June 29, 1999, by former
FDA scientist Peter Patriarca, that offered a "pros
and cons" assessment of the dishonest statement about Thimerosal in vaccines
that the FDA was about to release, and described the questions that could be
raised upon its release:

(1) FDA being `asleep at the switch' for decades, by allowing a potentially
hazardous compound to remain in many childhood vaccines, and not forcing
manufacturers to exclude it from new products.

Other Top Stories

CNN Exposes Vaccine-Autism Link by BYRON J. RICHARDS
Ending Profit Driven Mandatory Vaccination Racket by EVELYN PRINGLE
Forced Vaccination Scam In Maryland. Why? by DAWN RICHARDSON
Sanjay Gupta & Laura Bush Shill for Gardasil by PAM MARTENS
(COUNTERPUNCH.ORG)
Vaccination Scam Will Kill Iraqi Children -Faster by IRIN
Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines by DR. JAMES HOWENSTINE, MD (WORLD
VISION PORTAL)

http://www.adrugrecall.com/html/recalled.html

http://www.drugrecalls.com/

  There must be a better way of putting that.