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Posted September 2, 2011: by Bill Sardi
The Federal government has launched a double assault against the dietary supplement industry recently, which includes onerous new labeling requirements (Durbin bill, proposed) and testing requirements (New Dietary Ingredient guidelines, proposed) which would literally demolish the supplement industry.
To pull off these draconian measures the news media appears to be working in concert with government in a brainwashing effort to gain public support for these draconian measures. And that means dietary supplements, which are safer than aspirin, tap water or table salt, must be made to appear risky and unsafe.
The smear campaign against dietary supplements began August 27 in The New York Times with an article that reveals potential problems with foreign-made supplements that creep past US Customs and FDA inspectors. But these products do not represent the vast majority of dietary supplements sold in the marketplace today.
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Posted August 9, 2011: by Bill Sardi
In 2009 a deadly flu virus was supposedly sweeping the nation after starting in Mexico. But early on the story didn’t ring true. The President had just returned from a short trip to Mexico a month earlier when the French President was in Mexico City along with the President of Mexico to christen the opening of a French vaccine plant there. Suddenly a flu outbreak in a small village in Mexico was getting attention as it spread across the US-Mexico border. But there were no flu deaths in the village where it all began. The people in the village said they had been ill for some time from air pollution generated by nearby pig farms, not from the flu. And why was Homeland Security practicing drive-in delivery of flu vaccines in Texas months prior to the outbreak?
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Posted August 7, 2011: by Bill Sardi
With release of a report from the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, that low blood levels of vitamin D are more common among NFL football players who suffer muscle injuries, there is no better time to talk about vitamin D and sports with the release of Dr. John Cannell’s newest book, entitled ATHLETE’S EDGE: FASTER, QUICKER, STRONGER WITH VITAMIN D (www.vitamindsportsbook.com).
Readers will get the instant impression that this fully-illustrated 318-page book will make an impact, not just on individual athletes but also on entire sports the way performance-enhancing drugs did for baseball, but this time, it’s a natural (and legal) molecule that is involved.
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Posted August 6, 2011: by Bill Sardi
No one knows now whether Pfizer, which is panned as “the world largest research-based pharmaceutical company,” will have a more storied past or a more storied future. That’s because sometimes the downfall of such a huge success story in American business may be more gripping than an account of how Pfizer developed and marketed so many blockbuster drugs. The $68 billion drug giant is headed for a momentous downfall, and this is sure to gain continued attention in business news columns worldwide in the coming months ahead.
Pfizer’s treasure chests of new drugs are now empty. No genie is about to uncork a surprise molecule from its R&D pipeline that will generate billions of dollars to counter anticipated losses as Pfizer’s prized drug patents expire.
Pfizer’s CEO, who was once known as the maven who re-invented McDonald’s hamburger franchises, was commissioned to re-invent Pfizer. When Jeffrey Kindler first became CEO at Pfizer nearly a decade ago he faced what is tantamount to a corporate spill over a waterfall as its prize drug, Lipitor, faced eventual patent expiration. But that was years away.
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Posted August 4, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Bill Sardi responds to proposed FDA guidelines that would plunge dietary supplement industry into catastrophic decline
San Dimas, CA (July 28, 2011) – Efforts to comply with newly proposed FDA guidelines for New Dietary Ingredients would likely plunge the growing multi-billion dollar dietary supplement industry into unprofitability, result in the disappearance of thousands of dietary supplements from store shelves and would more than quadruple the retail price of vitamin pills, says Bill Sardi, president of Knowledge of Health, Inc, and supplement industry watchdog.
According to Sardi, compliance with the proposed New Dietary Ingredient guidelines recently published by the Food & Drug Administration would roughly require eight years of all the profits generated by dietary supplement sales to pay for initial safety testing.
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Posted August 2, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Don’t expect allergists to address that question. A resolved allergy problem is not a returning customer. Chronic allergies feed the allergy care system where these problems are generally treated by avoidance or as a drug deficiency.
So why do some kids have food allergies and others don’t? While modern medicine takes decades to figure this out, there are some hints in the medical literature as to why.
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Posted July 27, 2011: by Bill Sardi
San Dimas, CA (July 26, 2011)- Idebenone gets the headlines today for restoring vision to patients with an otherwise incurable inherited eye disease — Leber’s heredity optic neuropathy. And this discovery suggests idebenone may be helpful for patients with glaucoma, another optic nerve disease.
You may not be familiar with idebenone, produced by a pharmaceutical company in Japan. But you may have heard about idebenone under another name – coenzyme Q10. Idebenone is known as synthetic analog of coenzyme Q10, a natural antioxidant produced in the body. To be sold as a patentable drug in Japan the molecule had to be re-arranged molecularly.
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SAN DIMAS, CA (July 26, 2011) -Saying the newly proposed safety guidelines for dietary supplements would likely eliminate most children’s vitamins from store shelves, the first official comment regarding the FDA’s New Dietary Ingredient guidelines has been submitted, and it also calls for dietary supplements to be removed from oversight by the FDA altogether. The newly proposed guidelines were published on July 1 and are subject to a 90-day comment period.
Bill Sardi, long-time dietary supplement advocate, health writer and dietary supplement formulator, speaking from his office in San Dimas, California, says dietary supplements are safer than tap water, table salt, aspirin and even food and it is unlikely the newly proposed guidelines will make them any safer. His 16-page critique of the FDA’s newly proposed safety tests, available for viewing at www.knowledgeofhealth.com ,demands that an economic impact report be commissioned before any further action is taken by FDA.
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The predicted power grab of herbal and dietary supplements, many which have the same biological action as prescription drugs, is now underway. Drug patents face expiration (see article below) and profits will crash at pharmaceutical companies. Stock prices will fold for Big Pharma. The pipeline for new drugs is bare.
The New Dietary Ingredient guideline proposed by FDA would cost billions of dollars, result in many supplements being withdrawn from store shelves not because they are unsafe but because they can’t afford the onerous testing requirements to prove they are safe, and will wipe out most small business entities in the supplement business. One consequence, under the FDA guideline, children’s vitamins would virtually disappear, as they must undergo costly 1-3 year tests to prove they don’t cause birth defects. New Dietary Ingredient testing will cost tens of billions of dollars. The retail price for supplements will have to rise to that of drugs, and being unaffordable, consumers won’t be able to buy them.
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