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To: epicure who wrote (471)	4/15/2007 3:14:16 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) of 1564

Iktomi - The FDA tried to sneak something under the radar by posting it on their web site? How crafty of them. I have a couple of problems with that article, one of which is that I believe it is making claims that are alarmist and incorrect. The FDA will NOT be regulating stones unless those stones are intended to be ingested and claimed to have some sort of medicinal value. Personally, I think the FDA's action is long overdue. The fact that something is "herbal" doesn't mean that it can't have side effects, that it can't interact badly with other medicines (herbal or non-herbal) or that it is necessarily effective. Many items sold as nutritional supplements (such as hoodia pills recently) have been tested and found to contain little to none of the supposedly beneficial ingredient. Without any kind of regulation, companies can and have made all kinds of claims for their products; claims that aren't supported by any kind of clinical evidence. Obviously the FDA is not perfect, nor is the pharmaceutical industry. But requiring people who make nutritional supplements to actually put in the actual amount of the stuff they claim is in there is not a bad thing. Nor is it a bad thing to require people to be able to provide evidence to support claims they make about the benefits of things they are telling people to ingest. Statements like "the Chinese have used this for centuries to do this and that" is not real evidence. The Chinese have used powdered tiger penises for centuries to improve virility, but we should consider the possibility that it's just superstition that makes them do that. If powdered tiger penis does improve virility, then clinical tests would show that it does, and natural medicine proponents would be able to sell it. - Allen

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