Should America permit the FDA to ban all herbs, supplements and natural healing aids?

The American FDA plans to pass a new regulation giving them unlimited control over all natural, organic and holistic healing products and practices. This document is called 鈥淒ocket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.鈥?
Given their attitude towards all such health options, it is likely that many, if not all, of the effective and inexpensive holistic alternatives available today would be literally forced off the market. This plan is not only intrusive, but also ridiculous- if the law is passed, vegetable juice would be considered a 鈥渄rug鈥? Bottled water to treat 鈥渄ehydration鈥?would be a 鈥渄rug鈥? Everything from massage oil, yoga mats, and simple green tea would almost certainly be outlawed or unfairly policed.
Is this acceptable to us, the public? We alone have the ability to stop this regulation from becoming reality in a matter of weeks- the FDA accepts petitions and complaints only until April 30- then it is LAW.
If you care about this affront to our freedom as consumers, please make your voice heard and ACT NOW! Also, you can read the full story here:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles...
http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?c...

Remember: we have only 16 short days to act! Here is what you can do to let your voice be heard:

1. Submit comments online. Be sure you include the Docket No 2006D-0480 with your comments.

2. You can also send comments via snail mail to:

Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)
5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061
Rockville, MD 20852

3. You can call and chat up the following people and let them know what you think:

Sheryl Lard-Whiteford at 301-827-0379
Daniel Nguyen at 301-827-8971
Ted Stevens at 301-594-1184
Wayne Amchin at 301-827-6739

4. In addition to the above comment submissions, write or call your representatives and senators! You can find the contact information for your representatives in the House and Senate here.

Greenthought,
This is a guidance document only, not new regulations.
This guidance document does not change anything. If you make disease claims for carrot juice, then it is subject to regulation as a drug. This is true right now, without this guidance document. If you make no disease claims, then you are OK.(Credit given to Michael Donaldson Ellensburg, WA USA)

I sent the FDA this comment anyway:
Regarding Docket No 2006D-0480 I completely oppose the FDA鈥檚 never ending attempts to reclassify vitamins, supplements, herbs and even foods so that you can regulate them. The informed public sees this as just another step in appeasing the pharmaceutical industry & their efforts to increase their profits by promoting a never ending list of deadly allopathic drugs under the guise of promoters of good health. http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc...

Here's what the National Health Federation had to say:
http://www.thenhf.com/fda/fda_105/fda_10...

HERE'S THE ONE'S YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT:
http://www.thenhf.com/government_affairs...

no

Heck no!!!!!!!!!They just want us to take all them synthtic drugs, that actually make us sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW, are they trying to own and control everything that nature does? Pretty soon they're going to try to say that they own dirt!

I think this is taking things to the extreme. There's no way the government is going to do all of that. I honestly don't see this thing even getting to the floor for a vote.

The drug companies feel threatened. I bet this is all their doing.

no, but these things should be regulated like other food/drugs/etc.

they tried that before, but if people don't stop the drug company's from doing this then they will do It .its the drug company's wishing this

Dear FDA:
What you are about to do is criminal. You serve your masters(BigPharma and AMA) well. The Herbs and such are made by nature as well as BigPharma which are nothing more biochemicals and inorganics chemicals. It is pity that the general public are not educated in biochemistry and science to put a stop to your charade. It will be my fondish wish if you would stop what you are doing. Finally, it seems to me you are following down the road to implement Codex Alimentarius.

NO! I rely heavily on alternative medicine, and I feared this was in "our" future....sad to think that making yourself or your family chicken soup could be looked at as practicing medicine if this goes through....gald to see the post in time to make my voice heard....

This is another way of minting money, which the FDA wants to make use of. I pity the people there. No doubt USA can see a drastic decline in population.

No way. I do not trust the FDA to regulate supplements at all and I made my wishes known on the FDA online docket.

Basically NO!!
The American Government has been taken by the Corporations, Congress from both parties are all corrupted by the Corporations, a Congressman when he retires becomes a Farma employee with 2 mill dol. a year.
I think, until this can be corrected they will try to advance to make more and more money and we are the losers.
Looks like we need a new Party with no Corporations compromise, this is easy to say but not easy to implement.

Read about the Pharamaceutical "Business With Disease" that causes more deaths than all wars of Mankind combined.

Go to http://www.naturalholistic.net and click on Pharamaceutical Greed under Web Links.