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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in its role as enforcer of politically-acceptable medical practice, has just out warning letters regarding a medical treatment known as chelation. By Michael Tennant
FDA Cracks Down on Unapproved Chelation Products (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/4914-fda-cracks-down-on-unapproved-chelation-products)
Michael Tennant | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
18 October 2010
The Food and Drug Administration, in its role as enforcer of politically-acceptable medical practice, has just “sent warning letters to several companies notifying them that the substances they sell without a prescription for a procedure known as ‘chelation’ are ‘unapproved drugs and devices,’ which makes them illegal,” according to a report (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/14/AR2010101406962.html) in the Washington Post. Chelation therapy is a well-established treatment for patients who have been exposed to high levels of heavy metals such as lead; there are even FDA-approved prescription-only products for administering the treatment. However, as the Post points out, “the companies that received the warning letters sell products without a prescription, often as ‘dietary supplements,’ and describe multiple health benefits, none of which have been proven, the agency said.”
There lies the nub of the matter: Those selling these products, often on the Internet, have not bowed and scraped before the potentates at the FDA; and undoubtedly, the products they are hawking cannot be patented by the big pharmaceutical companies whose interests the FDA lives to protect. Therefore, they must be crushed lest Americans come to believe they have the right to determine for themselves which medical treatments they wish to employ.
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http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/4914-fda-cracks-down-on-unapproved-chelation-products
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in its role as enforcer of politically-acceptable medical practice, has just out warning letters regarding a medical treatment known as chelation. By Michael Tennant
FDA Cracks Down on Unapproved Chelation Products (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/4914-fda-cracks-down-on-unapproved-chelation-products)
Michael Tennant | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
18 October 2010
The Food and Drug Administration, in its role as enforcer of politically-acceptable medical practice, has just “sent warning letters to several companies notifying them that the substances they sell without a prescription for a procedure known as ‘chelation’ are ‘unapproved drugs and devices,’ which makes them illegal,” according to a report (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/14/AR2010101406962.html) in the Washington Post. Chelation therapy is a well-established treatment for patients who have been exposed to high levels of heavy metals such as lead; there are even FDA-approved prescription-only products for administering the treatment. However, as the Post points out, “the companies that received the warning letters sell products without a prescription, often as ‘dietary supplements,’ and describe multiple health benefits, none of which have been proven, the agency said.”
There lies the nub of the matter: Those selling these products, often on the Internet, have not bowed and scraped before the potentates at the FDA; and undoubtedly, the products they are hawking cannot be patented by the big pharmaceutical companies whose interests the FDA lives to protect. Therefore, they must be crushed lest Americans come to believe they have the right to determine for themselves which medical treatments they wish to employ.
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Full Story:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/4914-fda-cracks-down-on-unapproved-chelation-products