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At 04:35 PM 01/18/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>>Basically, in one post, I blamed the FDA for
>>overregulating supplements and accused the FDA of launching armed raids on
>>healers performing anything 'unorthodox.' (And by the way, the FDA *does*
>>do this.)
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>I don't know about the guns, but the FDA did indeed raid a Stevia producer.
>In addition to selling the sweetener, he also sold a cookbook. Agents had
>the audacity to mark the books, meaning they could not be sold. Can you say
>censorship? He got a good lawyer and called the news cameras out and won in
>the end. But the FDA nearly put this man out of business.
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>Dori Zook
>Denver, CO
No surprise but those that head the FDA also have a financial stake at
preventing those things that could benefit your health but endanger their
financial well being. Hmmm.....
Dr. Dave
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