Re: Re: Should herbal supplements be regulated? tonight on the CBS Evening News

[Guest guest]

It is a last ditch effort by the Republicans on their way out the door to pacify

big pharma. This proposal has been talked about for years.

More like, their are herbals, albeit usually synthetic, in prescription drugs.

Ex, digitalis is foxglove. Hawthorne is used in Europe for the same purpose.

Perhaps they should establish a system to ensure that herbs are pure.

barb1283 <barb1283@...> wrote: LOL...it

-IS- scary to think there might be <<PRESCRIPTION DRUGS>> in

these natural preparations!!!!!

....AND, " a million and a half suffering 'adverse reactions to

vitamins and supplements since 1983'. " is a paltry amount compared to

the record of FDA approved drugs!!!

> " People have found prescription medications in these products.

> People have found pesticides, " Hurley says. " The manufacturing

> process is not regulated. The safety and effectiveness has not been

> proved. It's a buyer's beware market. "

>

Hurley says his analysis of data from the

> U.S. Poison Control Centers show a million and a half people have

> suffered adverse reactions to vitamins and herbal supplements since

> 1983.

>

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[Guest guest]

Jane,

I am a Democrat all the way but UNFORTUNATELY the Dems are not as far behind

the Republicans as you would hope when it comes to whoring theselves out.

The real crime is the way we 'finance' elections.

And we should never have given corporations all the rights of people. (That

decision isn't even clearly what the Supreme Court did - but its been

interpreted that way! With no debate!)

They are not people and free speech laws should not be interpreted as

applying to them. But most free speech decisions have been for corporations

and 'corporate free speech'. Why don't we just sell votes to the highest

bidder while we are at it NOT. They are doing that in Hong

Kong..corporations get votes, just like people do.. and they count more!

They can't die, they can't be put in prison for crimes.. they are not real

flesh and blood citizens, they don't often belong just to any single

country, and especially - they are not accountable.. THEY ARE NOT HUMAN!!!

Its my feeling that political advertising should be banned and that

corporations should be prohibited from spending their stockholders money on

lobbying and fake grassroots groups and greenwashing and astroturf and all

the rest...

This is really important.. The founders of this nation DID NOT WANT THIS...

its exactly what they did not want..

On 1/17/07, jane mosher <janeannmosher@...> wrote:

>

> It is a last ditch effort by the Republicans on their way out the door

> to pacify big pharma. This proposal has been talked about for years.

> More like, their are herbals, albeit usually synthetic, in prescription

> drugs. Ex, digitalis is foxglove. Hawthorne is used in Europe for the same

> purpose.

> Perhaps they should establish a system to ensure that herbs are pure.

>

> barb1283 <barb1283@... <barb1283%40>> wrote: LOL...it -IS-

> scary to think there might be <<PRESCRIPTION DRUGS>> in

> these natural preparations!!!!!

> ....AND, " a million and a half suffering 'adverse reactions to

> vitamins and supplements since 1983'. " is a paltry amount compared to

> the record of FDA approved drugs!!!

>

>

>

> > " People have found prescription medications in these products.

> > People have found pesticides, " Hurley says. " The manufacturing

> > process is not regulated. The safety and effectiveness has not been

> > proved. It's a buyer's beware market. "

> >

> Hurley says his analysis of data from the

> > U.S. Poison Control Centers show a million and a half people have

> > suffered adverse reactions to vitamins and herbal supplements since

> > 1983.

> >

>

>

>

>

>