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Yesterday we reported on the FDA's new scheme for outlawing nearly all nutritional supplements formulated after October, 1994 (Source). That was just the beginning of this story, because a detailed analysis of the proposed new regulation reveals extremely disturbing revelations that would absolutely gut the nutritional products industry if these regulations are put into practice.
• All supplement companies must REMOVE their products from "interstate commerce" for the 75 days after the FDA receives their NDI applications. No product containing an NDI application ingredient may be sold in the United States or it will be considered "adulterated" by the FDA and thereby subjected to confiscation.
• While the NDI provisions of the 1994 DSHEA act merely required dietary supplement companies to notify the FDA of new ingredients, the FDA is now distorting this into a de facto supplement approval process. Without the FDA's new approval, nutritional supplements will all be labeled "adulterated" and potentially confiscated at gunpoint by the FDA.
• The real kicker in all this? Synthetic molecules that mimic dietary supplements (i.e. those used in pharmaceuticals) are EXEMPTED from all these requirements! So synthetic molecules need no approval from the FDA, while the natural ones do! This conveniently exempts the pharmaceutical vitamin companies who use synthetic vitamin chemicals rather than natural, full-spectrum nutrients.
Originally posted by nyk537
And this is what happens when you let bureaucratic government agencies run every area of our lives.
Originally posted by BirdOfillOmen
It sounds like a terrible move but then again the article you gave us was written by a shady website that sells nutritional supplements. It sounds like the FDA is just going to start enforcing the law- not ban all vitamins forever on.
Originally posted by TechUnique
Originally posted by BirdOfillOmen
It sounds like a terrible move but then again the article you gave us was written by a shady website that sells nutritional supplements. It sounds like the FDA is just going to start enforcing the law- not ban all vitamins forever on.
From the FDA themselves.