What You Should Know About the FDA

FDA Roadblocks Revolution in Nutrition There is a real scientific revolution taking place at the intersection of food, food extracts, and food supplements. Research suggests that changes in diet could reduce both heart disease and cancer by as much as 90%. Unfortunately the American people do not hear about this research. Food producers would like to tell them about it, but FDA rules prevent it.

Would You Tolerate This Abuse?
By William Faloon, Life Extension Foundation

Americans needlessly die while scientific discoveries that could save their lives remain trapped in bureaucratic red tape. There is a solution to this travesty. Allow free market innovation into the health care arena, and the development of new medical therapies will progress as rapidly as other technologies.

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FDA Science and Mission at Risk
An FDA Science Board report states that the nation's public health is at risk, as are the regulatory systems that oversee the nation's drug and device supplies.
http://www.dddmag.com/news-FDA-Science-and-Mission-at-Risk.aspx

Rigged Trials: Drug Studies Favor The Manufacturer
If you have often suspected that drug studies are rigged by the pharmaceutical manufacturer, you are right.
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n20.shtml

FDA Running Extortion Racket: Natural Supplement Companies Threatened with Arrest if They Don't Pay Up
Health Supplement Companies are being unfairly targeted by the FDA for posting "drug claims" on their websites. Companies using words like natural cures, treatments and remedies are being harassed for giving nutritional information, even when it is scientifically-supported.
http://www.naturalnews.com/024567.html
Read Dr. Mercola's Comments on "FDA Running Extortion Racket" 
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/13/the-fda-is-running-an-extortion-racket.aspx

NaturalNews Insider Alert (www.NaturalNews.com) Newsletter 
RE: Important health freedom update
http://www.healthfreedom.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=587&Itemid=

FDA Takes End Run to Award Contract to PR Firm
The FDA has hired a PR firm to counter recent bad press, but the move will cost tax payers more since the FDA circumvented standard government contracting procedures.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103061.html

Death by Medicine
The American medical system is found to be the leading cause of death and injury in the United States.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/11/26/death-by-medicine-part-one.aspx

U.S. Reports of Death, Side Effects from Prescription Drugs Triple
The number of deaths and serious injuries from prescription and over-the-counter drugs climbed from 34,966 to 89,842, according to a report in a September 2007 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296427,00.html

Studies Show FDA-Approved Drugs Don't Work and Cause Other Health Issues
Popular cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin does not prevent heart disease. And the drug Avandia, widely used to lower diabetics' blood sugar levels, increases the risk of heart attacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/18/AR2008021801942.html?sid=ST2008021802456

Drugs the FDA Says You Can't Have
Americans suffer and die even though effective drugs to treat their diseases are approved in other countries. The public is generally aware that novel drugs are sold in Europe and Japan, but intense lobbying by the pharmaceutical industry has blocked the wide-scale availability of these better medications.
http://www.stopfda.org/july2001_fdacant.htm

FDA Relies on Drug Company Research to Determine Product Safety
The FDA claims that the drugs it approves are "safe" by merely reviewing studies conducted by the drug company requesting government approval.
http://www.stopfda.org/mar2004_awsi_01.htm

FDA Decides Not to Approve Prostate Cancer Drug
Despite an approval recommendation by its own advisory panel, the FDA declines approval for Provenge, a new drug designed to extend the lives of patients with advanced prostate cancer by stimulating their immune systems.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070502149.html

FDA Claims Bisphenol-A in Plastic Bottles Not a Health Hazard
Although the Health and Human Services report that BPA may alter human development, the FDA has decided that BPA found in baby bottles, food can linings, and hard plastic bottles is safe.  Environmental groups are critical of FDA's analysis, which they argue are based on studies funded by industry.  "It's ironic FDA would choose to ignore dozens of studies funded by (the National Institutes of Health) -- this country's best scientists -- and instead rely on flawed studies from industry," Pete Myers, chief scientist for Environmental Health Sciences.
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/08/18/fda-bpa-in-plastic-bottles-isnt-a-health-hazard/

The FDA versus Folic Acid
While multiple scientific journal articles point to the health benefits from folic acid, including reducing the incidence of health attack and stroke, the FDA refuses to accept that folic acid has any benefit other than preventing a certain type of birth defect.
http://www.stopfda.org/jan99-fdavfolic.htm

FDA Approves Wrong Drug Plant
The Chinese facility that supplies the active ingredient of the widely used blood thinner heparin was never inspected by the Food and Drug Administration because the agency confused its name with another just like it, agency officials said yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/18/ST2008021802456.html

FDA Delays Requiring Cipro Warning
FDA waited nearly two years to call for its most urgent safety warning on Cipro and other antibiotics. In 2006 it had evidence that these drugs may lead to tendon ruptures, a serious injury that can leave patients incapacitated and needing extensive surgery, but ordered a "black box" warning in July 2008.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378102,00.html