FDA orders destruction of cook books mentioning "stevia"
MichaelP
By coincidence, the Portland "Oregonian" included a half-page in its
cooking pages - two or perhaps three weeks ago.
Perhaps they should expect a visit from the FDA polizei
MichaelP !!
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:20:19 -0400
From: betty martini <bett...@mindspring.com>
Attention Assignment Editors and Producers
For Immediate Release
Contact Betty Martini, Mission Possible International
Contact Betty Martini, Mission Possible International
Its hard to forget the FDA raids during the era of the passing of the
Dietary Supplement Bill to protect vitamins and herbs. This culminated in
the creation of the FDA Holocaust Museum in Hollywood, Florida.
"The FDA serves as the pharmaceutical
industry's watchdog which can be called upon to attack and destroy a
potential competitor, under the guise of protecting the public."
Racketeering in Medicine, The Suppression of Alternatives
by James P. Carter,
M.D., Dr. P.H.
Here is the actual letter from the Department of Health & Human Services,
dated May 19, l998 to Mr. Rhodes of the Stevita Co.
Dallas District
Dallas District
3310 Live Oak Street
3310 Live Oak Street
Dallas, Texas 76204-6191
VIA FACSIMILE AND FEDERAL EXPRESS
Mr. Oscar D. Rhodes, President
Stevita co., Inc.
7650 Highway 287, Suite 100
Arlington, Texas 76017
Dear Mr. Rhodes:
This letter is written in response to the May 13, l998 letter by Ms.
Jaylene M. Sarracino, Esq., addressed to the attention of Ms. Stella
Notzon of this office, on the subject of further detainment of Stevita co.
stevia products under Entry Numbers 125-0981854-3 & 125-0981567-1.
Ms. Sarracino's letter documents a telephone conversation with Ms. Notzon
on the subject of cookbooks and other publications used in the marketing
of your stevia products. In her letter, Ms. Sarracino states that on May
14, l998, Stevita Co. will discontinue the sale of any publications, and
will sever all links to web-site information referencing the questionable
use of stevia products. She indicates the stevia products will be
marketed strictly as dietary supplements with only the labeling currently
appearing on the product containers.
The agency appreciates Stevita Co's expressed intention to comply with the
law. However, a current inventory must be taken by an investigator of
this office, who will also be available TO WITNESS DESTRUCTION OF THE
COOKBOOKS, LITERATURE AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS for the purpose of verifying
compliance. Additionally, your stevia products currently in distributor
and retail channels with the offending cookbooks, literature and other
publications continue to be in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act (the Act). These products are unapproved food additives in
violation of Section 409, and adulterated within the meaning of Section
402 (a) (2) (c) of the Act. We are prepared to pursue further regulatory
action against these products should they continue to be adulterated in
distribution.
The inspection of your facility on April 27, l998 conducted jointly by
investigators of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Texas
Department of Health, along with visits to your consignees, documented
your firm's continued marketing of your stevia products as conventional
foods accompanied by OFFENDING LITERATURE, COOKBOOKS, AND OTHER
PUBLICATIONS, in violation of the Act as cited in the FDA warning letter
of March 6, 1998.
Further regulatory action will be considered against new shipments of
stevia products marketed in this manner, as well as against those parent
lots from which the adulterated products are being marketed.
If you have any questions regarding this letter, you may call me at 214
655-5318, ext. 517.
Sincerely,
James R. Lanar
James R. Lanar
Compliance Officer
CC: Jaylene M. Sarracino, Esq.
Capital Office Park
6301 Ivy Lane, Suite 102
Greenbelt, Maryland 20708
Stevia is a perennial shrub, the extracts of which have been used for
centuries as a safe, natural sweetener by people in Paraguay and Brazil.
Stevia is 200 to 300 times sweeter than sugar. After great pressure by
consumers the FDA finally approved it only as a dietary supplement and
lifted the embargo. The FDA with strong loyalties to Monsanto actually
forbid this food source to come into the country. Zolton P. Rona, M.D.,
MSc said in Health Naturally, August/Sept l996: "In l991, the FDA banned
stevia imports for use in foods, reportedly at the request of an aspartame
manufacturer." That says it all - it appears the FDA and Monsanto do not
want competition with their neurotoxin, NutraSweet.
In a letter to Dr. Kesslser of the FDA from William R. Pendergast (Arent
Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn) dated October 21, l991 about Stevia, he said:
"American Herbal Products Association believes that FDA's position is
incorrect in that stevia leaf is not a food additive within the meaning of
Sec. 201 (s), 21 U.S.C. 321 (s) because it is exempt from that definition
by reason of its "common use in food" prior to l958. For that reason, FDA
approval pursuant to Sec 409, 21 U.S.C. 348 of the Act is not required and,
indeed, AGPA does not seek such approval here. AHPA seeks only FDA's
acquiescence in the marketing of stevia containing foods in interstate
commerce, such acquiescence based upon the facts, data and legal issues as
presented herein."
The sad thing is that Stevia is a wonderful herb that helps in the
metabolism of sugar, and has been used to aid diabetics; and it doesn't
keep blood sugar out of control. On the other hand, aspartame is a deadly
neurotoxin, a drug that interacts with other drugs, and precipitates
diabetes. Monsanto funds the American Diabetic Association and American
Dietetic Association who even admit that Monsanto (NutraSweet) writes their
material. Aspartame is a molecule composed of three components, aspartic
acid, phenylalanine and methanol (wood alcohol). Methanol converts to
formaldehyde and formic acid and causes metabolic acidosis. The
phenylalanine in aspartame at 50% lowers the seizure threshold of the brain
and depletes serotonin. Phenylalanine and aspartic acid are two of three
amino acids that cannot be isolated from the other amino acids in protein
and go beyond the blood brain barrier causing brain damage of varying
degrees. H. J. Roberts, M.D., Board Certified and Recertified Internist
(and diabetic specialist) has now declared Aspartame to be a Disease and
Worldwide epidemic. He says that in diabetics aspartame destroys the optic
nerve, keeps blood sugar out of control and causes patients to sometimes go
into convulsions. By the FDA's own report, aspartame triggers 92
documented symptoms from four types of seizures to coma and death.
The FDA has consistently fought against the healthy Stevia Leaf. In a
country founded on freedom you can go to the library and buy a book on how
to make a bomb, or buy trashy pornography, but its illegal to tell the
consumer public the history of the Stevia Leaf, and the fact that it is a
sweetener and has health advantages. Yet it is perfectly alright for the
FDA to approve a chemical poison, aspartame, for human consumption,
masquerading as an additive. And it was perfectly alright for them to turn
a deaf ear when they were petitioned to ban aspartame in l986 by the
Community Nutrition Institute because consumers were going blind from the
wood alcohol.
The FDA in this letter speaks of compliance with law. Yet, in l985 their
own FDA toxicologist, the late Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress that
aspartame violated Delaney Amendment because it triggered brain tumors in
lab animals. His last words were: "And if the FDA violates its own laws
who is left to protect the public?" While the FDA speaks of adulteration
have they not perverted the facts on aspartame? The brochure that the FDA
sends out on aspartame, pure propaganda , is answered and rebutted on
www.dorway.com
In August l995 the FDA unveiled a program to push pharmacists to prepare
special patient information leaflets for every prescription they dispense.
Yet, they do not consider it necessary to inform the consumer public that
the DRUG aspartame has 92 documented symptoms and interacts with other
drugs including monoamine oxidase inhibitors, alpha-methyldopa and
L-dihydroxphenylalanine.
Just today, June 23 in the New York Times it says: "For the second time in
two weeks, the Food and Drug Administration has taken the rare step of
pulling a prescription drug, ,,, The drug, Duract, a painkiller
manufactured by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories of St. Davids, Pa has caused a
dozen cases of serious liver failure since it went on the market last July;
four patients died and eight required liver transplants." Yet aspartame
has caused more deaths and more symptoms and more diseases. Because it
destroys the central nervous system (mimics MS), the brain (is escalating
Alzheimers and other neurological horrors) and the optic nerve, it may be
that aspartame has caused more deaths than many wars.
Redux and FenPhen were banned because they were causing cardiac problems
and death. Aspartame causes cardiac problems and death. These three drugs
alter serotonin. Did they react together and cause death? On June 8
Posicor was banned because it turned out to be potentially lethal when used
with a long list of other drugs. Aspartame also interacts with drugs and
potentially lethal, yet it is not banned!
In discussing the dangers of NutraSweet in Assault On Medical Freedom, P.
Joseph Lisa wrote: "These complaints all came to the FDA's attention.
There were thousands of them. Yet the FDA did nothing to take this
apparently dangerous product off the market. In contrast the FDA took
rather heavy-handed and drastic actions against Herbalife for fewer than
six complaints, according to the California Food and Drug files."
Upon signing the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act into law,
President Clinton said: "The passage of this legislation speaks to the
determination of the legislators involved and I appreciate their work. But
most important, it speaks to the
diligence with which an
unofficial army of nutritionally conscious people worked democratically to
change the laws in an area deeply important to them." But the battle is
not over to save dietary supplements
G. M. Wolverton, M.D. in warning all patients off of NutraSweet said: "When
you get the situation we now have in Washington with vast reaching bureaus
that are given awesome power (such as FDA has) "Government," as George
Washington said, "is not reason; government is not justice. Like fire, it
is a dangerous servant and fearful master!"
Dr. James Bowen in a statement to the FDA many years ago about aspartame
said: .. "The recent revelations about the problems surrounding generic
drug approvals are compelling evidence of what happens when an agency
considers itself above the law in dealing with these matters. In my
opinion, this has resulted in the mass poisoning of the American public as
well as seventy-plus countries in the rest of the world. Watching FDA
officials walk through the "revolving door" and be further rewarded by
being promoted o other positions of high public responsibility is clear
evidence of a government out of control.
Twenty-six questions to the FDA listed on the DORway web site remain
unanswered going on two years. Congressman Newt Gingrich continues to
demand these answers but FDA knows the facts would remove the
neurotoxin, aspartame, from the marketplace. It is quite evident that
neither the FDA or Monsanto want competition from the healthy Stevia leaf.
Betty Martini
Mission Possible International
770 242-2599
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