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Feds Eye Control Of Vitamins, Supplements � Even Water!
FDA looks to regulate natural substances as "drugs",
with prescriptions from doctors

Posted: April 24, 2007 9:30 p.m. Eastern

By Bob Unruh
� 2007 WorldNetDaily.com


FDA Commissioner Andrew von Echenbach

The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs and other natural substances, including water when it is used to "treat" dehydration, should be classified as drugs, and opponents have only until April 30 to express their concern about the proposals under Docket No. 2006D-0480.

The website noted that among likely developments if the FDA has its way:

Growing and selling common garden herbs will get you arrested as a drug dealer.

Massage oils and handheld massagers will be regulated as "medical devices."

Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug.

Weight machines will be regulated as "medical devices" and require FDA approval before being sold or used.

Raw sprouts and other anti-cancer foods will be regulated as "drugs".

Bottled water that "treats" dehydration will be regulated as a "drug".

Massage therapists who use hot rocks as part of their therapy will have the ROCKS regulated as medical devices! (It's true. The FDA will actually look at a pile of rocks and declare, "Those are medical devices!")

Foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will disappear from store shelves, pending FDA "review."

Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for "practicing medicine without a license."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55370