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To: Janice Shell who wrote (19685)	2/19/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Cindy Powell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26163

Ellen, As a note of interest, the FDA just lost their case against the supplement, Cholestin. The consensus was that the FDA overstepped their bounds in ruling Cholestin as a drug rather than a dietary supplement, thereby banning it's ingredients from being imported into the United States. This victory won on behalf of Pharmonex, has proved to be an important test case of the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Hopefully this decision will limit the government's ability to regulate natural remedies. The government most likely get's all kinds of kickback from these pharmaceutical companies who want their chemically altered -- and therefore patentable -- concoctions to take precedence over natural remedies where molecules work harmoniously on body chemistry. There are many examples of natural remedies being better alternatives to the (some-time) chaotic bioengineered products that can skew the bodies biofeedback systems, as might be the case with serotonin in the aforementioned posting. Cholestin, which is made from ground red yeast rice, was found to reduce cholestrol, and interestingly, the FDA staged an out and out ban on it, -- in my opinion, to give the big pharmaceutical companies the advantage with their "altered" and therefore patentable concoctions. The politicing with the FDA and the FDA's place in big business shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone, and the DSHEA is now in full force as a protecting organization that is going to go to bat for natural remedies and keep the FDA in check. Remember that stuff floating around that the U.S. govt was supposedly involved in a conspiracy to addict everyone to sugar by unnecessarily and covertly adding sugar to everything and anything to supposedly boost the sugar economy? That might have boarded more on the bogus and paranoid, but the FDA's curious involvement with "some" natural substances is probably worth keeping in check with agencies such as the DSHEA. Staying tuned, Cindy