Re: The FDA ---- a corrupted entity?
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> Why the Food And Drug Administration Needs Us
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> FDA Secrets
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f56-7qB08cA&feature=fvw
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> FDA Advisory & Big Pharma Conflicts of
Interest, Psychology
Thank you Jan for your timely email. The time is
long overdue to take on the FDA. From the way it
operates it's hard to tell whether it is in the
camp of the druglords or of the public. I believe
an independent detailed investigation needs to be
made to determine whether the FDA has been bought
by these druglords.
The letter below relates to the present attempt of
a druglord to hijack a variant on vitamin B6 that
has been around for years, does much good and no
harm at all. If the FDA gets away with this, our
supplements may become prescription drugs and
vastly more expensive than they need to be. Please
let's drown the FDA with complaints about this
matter. Thank you very much for your help.
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Nancy-Ann DeParle Director
Office of Health Reform
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
Dear Ms. DeParle,
The FDA is denying Americans access to a low-cost
dietary supplement
(pyridoxamine) in order to make this natural
vitamin an expensive prescription
drug.
If the FDA succeeds, the American public's health
will be severely injured, and
Medicare will be forced to fork over millions of
unnecessary dollars to subsidize
pyridoxanilne as an overpriced pharmaceutical.
Safety is not the issue. The FDA admits its plan
to ban pyridoxamine is in direct
response to a petition filed by a pharmaceutical
company. This company wants
the FDA to grant it exclusive status to sell the
safest form of vitamin B6
(pyridosamine) as a drug!
At stake are the lives of millions of Americans
whose health can be protected
against a host of age-related diseases if
pyridoxamine can be freely added to
dietarv supplement formulas.
The FDA has received a petition from another
pharmaceutical company seeking
to ban the sale of pyridoxal-5'-phosphate, which
is another form of vitamin B6
that has been safely sold as a dietary supplement
for decades. I ask that you
instruct the FDA to reject this petition since
pyridoxal-5'-plzosphate provides
numerous health benefits that cannot be obtained
with conventional vitamin B6
(pyridoxine HCl) supplements.
I also ask that you mandate the FDA to reverse its
inappropriate ban against
pyridoxamine, so that it can once again be freely
sold as a Vitamin B6 dietary
supplement.
Your administration has prioritized the need to
make healthcare affordable to
all. One simple way of accomplishing this is to
not allow pharmaceutical companies
to enjoy bureaucracy-bestowed monopolies courtesy
of biased FDA officials.
To review the complete facts about the
pyridoxamine/pyridoxal-5'-phosphate
controversy, log on to www.lef.org/pyridoxamine
Sincerely,
Name:
Address: