Posted on 06/04/2011 6:29:25 AM PDT by ruralvoter
Federal authorities have seized bottles and drums of elderberry juice concentrate from a Kansas winery, contending that the company's claims of its benefits for treating various diseases make the product a drug. (snip)
The government contends the juice concentrate is an unapproved and misbranded drug because the winery claims it is used to treat diseases such as the flu, cancer and AIDS.
"Products with unapproved disease claims are dangerous because they may cause consumers to delay or avoid legitimate treatments, Dara Corrigan, the FDA's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, said in a news release. "The FDA is committed to protecting consumers from unapproved products on the market."
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Why not simply tell them to stop making the claim?
I don't need your help. Now run along to the lunch with the drug company lobbyists and collect your protection money.
Yes we need more government. Our nation is insolvent and we pay govt officials to seize elderberry wine.
Nice. I’m sure the Founders had this in mind.
“I don’t need your help.”
Exactly. Just leave us alone. I’ll decide what I want to take.
Snake-oil claims? Yet, the government keeps saying they can control the weather...
This is so big brother that it is scary.
People were copper bracelets, sleep with magnets, take mega vitamins, buy organic vegetables, go to ‘holistic’ centers, etc. etc. etc. As a doc, I don’t believe anything is therapeutic unless I see data, but it’s not the government’s right to prevent people from using these things.
It’s also not the government’s right to force people to take things for which there is data justifying use. It’s called freedom. I once lived in a country premised on freedom.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Seriously! Our President is the biggest Snake Oil Salesman in history.....
Fed’s war on food
Fed’s war on Cheerios
Fed’s war on Boeing
Fed’s war on Elderberry juice
Too bad there is no war on spending.
It is ALMOST as if we had not voted at all in November!
maybe they didn't anticipate the hope and change.
“Products with unapproved disease claims are dangerous because they may cause consumers to delay or avoid legitimate treatments”
The legitimate treatments may not always be better for you.
sheesh, cranberry juice & pomegranate juice are next
I’d swear some of these home remedies are FAR better than the stuff the FDA has approved, like cloves of garlic in the ear to take away infection, or a raw potato to relieve heart burn. WHEN will the gov’t LEAVE US ALONE, folks, it’s time for another Civil War uprising.
I’d swear some of these home remedies are FAR better than the stuff the FDA has approved, like cloves of garlic in the ear to take away infection, or a raw potato to relieve heart burn. WHEN will the gov’t LEAVE US ALONE, folks, it’s time for another Civil War uprising.
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Wasn’t it Elderberry wine that the Aunts used to disguise the poison in Arsenic and Old Lace? :)
You got that right ! Have you seen in the commercials the side affects from some of the legitimate treatments ?
I could never figure how the side-effect of an anti-depressant could be thoughts of suicide.
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