Thread: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"

I doubt it's the FDA that pushing for this. Hell, they didn't want to schedule steroids.

The real question is: who's behind it?

Originally Posted by DOMS

The real question is: who's behind it?

I would guess the pharmaceutical industry.

Originally Posted by Prince

I would guess the pharmaceutical industry.

good guess. i work in the pharma industry, doctors are just as bad.....im not saying i know something im just agree with its a good guess and i wouldnt put it past them

doctors just do what the drug companies want, i.e. push their drugs.

Alomost everytime i see a docter the drug reps are in the office. Giving them all kinds of free stuff

Have you heard of this bill Prince and if so who all plans on writing about it?

i read the article that the original poster linked us to.

Didn't the author seem a little extreme in the concept of "if i give a veggie drink to a friend that i could be arrested for drug distribution"

that seems outlandish to me. If that's the case, are they no longer going to allow us to grow veggies in the case that if we give to a friend that we are now considered "drug dealers?" and for that matter, would veggies be considered drug paraphanelia ? (sp?)

like i said, extreme. but that's what I gathered from the article. I just don't think the FDA is going to go knocking on every farmer's door to see if they are "distributing" or not.

They say they've been trying for awhile, I hope they don't.

Ginkgo biloba in Germany I believe is regulated as a medicine (topical anti-inflamatory usually).

Yeah, this is not new, I don't see it happening. I think they will continue to ban certain supps individually like they did with ephedra.