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FDA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ELIMINATE VITAMIN COMPANIES

By Byron J. Richards, CCN

June 27, 2007

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The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company, has
embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with business and
intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from
the market. The FDA announcement came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under
the guise of a final rule for dietary supplement good manufacturing
practices (CGMPs). Within this 800 page rule the FDA states, "We find
that this final rule will have a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.... Establishments with above
average costs, and even establishments with average costs, could be
hard pressed to continue to operate. Some of these may decide it is
too costly and either change product lines or go out of business....
140 very small [less than 20 employees] and 32 small dietary
supplement manufacturers [less than 500 employees] will be at risk of
going out of business.... costs per establishment are proportionally
higher for very small than for large establishments....The regulatory
costs of this final rule will also discourage new small businesses
from entering the industry."

This FDA rule will directly raise the price of dietary supplements for
all consumers. The FDA acknowledges this and says "We expect that the
majority of these costs will be borne by consumers of dietary
supplements, who will likely respond to the increase in prices by
reducing consumption." Thus, the FDA is intentionally seeking to
shrink the size of the dietary supplement industry and reduce the
influence of safe and effective options to improve the dreadful trend
in the health of Americans. The goal is to leave toxic drugs as the
primary health option.

Independent analysis of this FDA rule has placed cost of compliance at
10 fold what the FDA estimates with as many as 50% of small companies
unable to comply.

The gutless cowards of Congress, a majority of whom are on the Big
Pharma payroll or will be on it once they leave Congress, have
delegated their lawmaking powers granted by the U.S. Constitution to a
bunch of Big Pharma-friendly unelected bureaucrats at the FDA, who are
in turn using this power to undermine free commerce and help Big
Pharma eliminate competition from the market. This is the behavior of
a government in tyranny, inviting a revolution by the people. It is
noteworthy that fascist governments of the past have eliminated health
freedom and health options as a necessary condition to enslave and
brainwash a population. Congress has delegated its responsibility to
the people to such an extent that over half the laws in this country
are now concocted by unelected bureaucrats with vested interests.

A Vehicle for Unprecedented Harassment

Any company that can afford to comply with the costs and regulations
of this new FDA rule can be targeted and eliminated at will by the
FDA. In essence, the FDA is seeking to make the dietary supplement
industry document every phase of production, including expensive
testing at multiple points in the production process. Massive
recordkeeping will be required, including all customer complaints and
returns for any reason! This is utterly draconian and unnecessary
interference and burden to free commerce. It is completely Anti-
American. No doubt, the FDA will impose user fees as an additional
charge so that FDA agents will have the funding required to enforce
the regulations. Under the new rule any flaw in bookkeeping can result
in a company's products being declared adulterated, allowing the FDA
to remove them from the market even though nothing is wrong with them!
A company can then be forced out of business because they won't be
able to sell any products to raise the money to comply. The rules are
so complex and vague that the FDA can selectively target any company
it chooses, even those attempting to comply in good faith.

The FDA is doing this under the pretense of improved consumer safety.
Consumer safety could readily be guaranteed by simply having all
companies test their final products for purity and potency. Instead of
this simple approach the FDA has gone to the extreme of burdening the
dietary supplement industry with regulations in excess of the drug
industry! Supplements are foods, not drugs. The food industry couldn't
begin to comply with these FDA rules, even though food contamination
is far more dangerous to health than dietary supplements.

The FDA intends to phase this rule in over the next three years. This
means that within five years half the industry and many of the health
options individuals rely on will either be gone or significantly more
expensive.

Even more chilling is that forces within the dietary supplement
industry itself are in no small part responsible for this FDA final
rule.

Trade Groups and their Big Companies Turn on America

The Natural Products Association (formerly the National Nutritional
Food Association - NNFA) and the Council for Responsible Nutrition
(CRN) have been instrumental in forcing these drug-like rules on
dietary supplements. These globalist organizations are selling out
America, destroying American jobs, undermining the U.S. Constitution,
and working in conjunction with pharmaceutical companies to usher in
Codex and the New World Order. Consumers of dietary supplements should
learn who these companies are before buying their products and helping
to inadvertently fund the destruction of health freedom in this
country.

When DSHEA was passed in 1994 part of that law required the FDA to
establish current good manufacturing practices (CGMPs) for the dietary
supplement industry. During a period of FDA outreach to the industry
the FDA was surprised to learn that CRN and NPA were in favor of drug-
like CGMPs for the dietary supplement industry. These trade groups,
working closely with Senators Orin Hatch (R-UT) and Tom Harkin (D-IA),
have intentionally taken the supplement industry down a slippery
slope. It is noteworthy that Hatch takes in more money from Big Pharma
than he does from dietary supplement companies. Not only is Hatch a
big supporter of the Medicare Part D drug rip off of Americans he has
saved Big Pharma billions by protecting them from generic competition,
as he is currently attempting to do with his legislation for new
biologic drugs. Hatch also has a son working for NPA and another son
that lobbies for NPA and the dietary supplement industry. When Hatch
leaves the Senate he will be first in line for a six or seven figure
Big Pharma salary.

The CRN has been taken over by multinational drug and food companies.
Key players are the nutritional divisions of Bayer, BASF, Cargill,
Monsanto, Wyeth, and Archer Daniels Midland. Nutrition companies that
participate are in most cases owned by pharmaceutical companies,
heavily invested in pharmaceutical companies, or jockeying for
position in the international market as part of the New World Order.
Key names include Mannatech, Shaklee, Herbalife, GNLD International,
The Vitamin Shoppe, and GNC. These companies are glad to eliminate
competition from small companies and start up ventures.

Carrying on the general theme of Big Pharma ownership and a globalist
agenda are the companies that control the NPA. One need only look at
the new NPA China board to understand who these key players are.
Jarrow Formulas, Now Foods, GNC, and Herbalife top the list. At the
end of 2006 Jarrow and Now helped lead the charge with Senators Hatch
and Harkin to burden the dietary supplement industry with bizarre
Adverse Event Reporting legislation (AER) which insisted that dietary
supplement companies keep extensive records on any type of consumer
complaint. Aspects of this AER law are now implemented in the FDA
final rule on CGMPs. Of course, NPA was quick to offer expensive
training to its members to indoctrinate them into how to comply with
the rules that NPA, working on behalf of the FDA, just forced on its
own members. Are their member companies really this stupid? Or are
they all working together? I would recommend that any NPA member that
believes itself to be a true American company that values our
constitution immediately withdraw from NPA membership - consumers will
be looking to see who you are.

The picture is now crystal clear for any person who cares to look.
Numerous dietary supplement companies are anti-American and actively
selling out our country and our constitution, working hand-in-glove
with the FDA and Big Pharma. The majority of such companies can be
found as members of CRN and NPA. It will be up to the American
consumer to save the dietary industry from itself and preserve their
own access to safe and effective natural health remedies. This is a
relatively simple task. Quit buying products from or quit being a
distributor in these fascist organizations. Support the small
companies that are the backbone of America, otherwise they will soon
be extinct.

Update on S.1082 Threat to Dietary Supplements

Many of you have been following the extreme threat to dietary
supplements posed by S.1082. Similar legislation has now cleared the
House Energy and Commerce Committee and is headed for the floor of the
House in the next week or two. The House version of this bill now
contains the "food and food ingredients" language that the FDA can use
to apply drug-related risk/benefit analysis to dietary supplements and
have them removed from the market at their whim.

It is noteworthy that both CRN and NPA have posted on their websites
information stating that S.1082 is not a threat to dietary
supplements. Both organizations are flat out wrong. They cite a
colloquy by Hatch, Harkin, Kennedy, and Enzi as their evidence. This
colloquy was a direct result of our grassroots campaign to alert the
American consumer to this major threat. In no way does this colloquy
protect dietary supplements. UNTIL THE LANGUAGE IN THE BILL IS CHANGED
THE THREAT EXISTS AND IS VERY REAL.

CRN and NPA also tell their members that the Codex initiative to scare
consumers into thinking that dietary supplements are unsafe above
miniscule amounts and need to be regulated by international laws is
also no big deal. It is clear that CRN and NPA, again working hand-in-
glove with the FDA, are a major part of the problem and are actively
engaged in forwarding the globalist agenda of the New World Order.
While pretending to represent the dietary supplement industry these
organizations are in fact shooting the industry in the back and
undermining health options for Americans.

The FDA is Out of Control

The FDA is a tyrannical organization that is now emboldened and
completely out of control. It is not surprising that the FDA is
seeking to eliminate competition to Big Pharma, they have been doing
that for much of the past century. What is surprising is that they are
openly stating in their final rule a plan that directly eliminates
small businesses from existence. This fascist organization believes
itself to be above the rule of law and is actively working against
America and the rights of Americans. It must be stopped.

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Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources, is a Board-
Certified Clinical Nutritionist and nationally-renowned health expert,
radio personality, and educator. He is the author of Mastering Leptin,
The Leptin Diet, and Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's
Betrayal of America.

Richards encourages individuals to take charge of their health, stand
up for their health rights, and not blindly succumb to propaganda from
the vested-interests who profit from keeping Americans sick. As
founder of Wellness Resources, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN, an
independently-owned fine-quality dietary supplement company since
1985, he has personally developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade
nutritional formulas. www.wellnessresources.com

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