Patrick Elliott wrote:
> The loop hole is simple. Since the FDA can't, by any stretch of the 
> imagination, test "everything", and Dietary Supplements often fall into 
> a kind of vague category that was deemed "outside their purview", they 
> can't act on anything other than false advertisement, or *actually* 
> cases of injury to someone from using a product, whether it be magic 
> beads, or some random herb they tell you is "good for your heart", which 
> simultaneously failing to carry things like violet extract, which "does" 
> work, and is sold, by legit pharma, as a named drug, because they can 
> **accurately** measure how much you get, where as, herbals, even if they 
> do work, which most don't, can be effected by everything from climate, 
> rainfall, temperature, picking time, drying method, mixing methods, 
> secondary binders and other ingredient, if you use those to make pills 
> from them, and even the individual persons **specific** reaction to the 
> secondary ingredients, which may either a) counter the effect of the 
> main one, b) heighten it in someone with an allergy, c) have an entirely 
> unintended effect that is worse than thing being cured in them, etc.

Do you realize you've written this as one long sentence? Sometimes your 
prose can be very difficult to read. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

Post a reply to this message