Why hasn't "Big Milk" been put into Jail over this sort crap?
Posted on 07/21/2011 2:35:09 PM PDT by nralife
Seen any walnuts in your medicine cabinet lately? According to the Food and Drug Administration, that is precisely where you should find them. Because Diamond Foods made truthful claims about the health benefits of consuming walnuts that the FDA didn’t approve, it sent the company a letter declaring, “Your walnut products are drugs” — and “new drugs” at that — and, therefore, “they may not legally be marketed … in the United States without an approved new drug application.” The agency even threatened Diamond with “seizure” if it failed to comply.
Diamond’s transgression was to make “financial investments to educate the public and supply them with walnuts,” as William Faloon of Life Extension magazine put it. On its website and packaging, the company stated that the omega-3 fatty acids found in walnuts have been shown to have certain health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and some types of cancer. These claims, Faloon notes, are well supported by scientific research: “Life Extension has published 57 articles that describe the health benefits of walnuts”; and “The US National Library of Medicine database contains no fewer than 35 peer-reviewed published papers supporting a claim that ingesting walnuts improves vascular health and may reduce heart attack risk.”
Don’t FOOD and WATER technically “extend life” as well?
Why hasn't "Big Milk" been put into Jail over this sort crap?
>>Time to head for Costco and buy a 50 lb bag....
Or a pair of saplings.
The lunacy has hit a new height! Taking a age-old nut off the market because of a factual statement is...well, nutty. There is fish that is marketed for healthy eating. This could cost Diamond their business, which means loss of jobs, revenue from taxes, etc. This doesn’t just impact Diamond, but all the growers, and harvesters. Wonder what the libs down at the healthfood market would make of this latest intrusion? My grandmother would be laughing. I’ll have to ask my aunt. There may be a lot of products disappearing under this ruse.
LiLo might have some white stuff above her lip, but it sure ain’t milk.
“Seriously, would we even notice if the size and scope of government were to halved overnight?”
Surely no one could fail to notice all of the millions of people dancing in the streets?
I would notice!
;-)
Take an 81 milligram aspirin one half an hour before taking niacin and it will not allow any flushing to occur.Niacin destroys cholesterol. Try it!!
Is it still too soon to shoot the bastards?
Warning letter is dated Feb 22, 2010
If walnuts are outlawed, only outlaws will have walnuts...
Celiac here too! Sure are a lot of new products for us lately. I’m glad Gluten Free has become a fad diet for some non celiacs.
That means there's no such thing as "healthy food". If it's arguably "healthy", then it's a drug.
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O’s been taking them for their medicinal purposes for quite a while.
Whole.
As a suppository.
Oh come on. Don't you like hot flashes without warning?
Good catch. Thanks!
If they’re already facing a possible seizure then the agent involved isn’t likely going to bend and allow that...some of them are real asses and won’t “negotiate” once they’ve made up their mind. As such rather than risk the seizure a voluntary recall is likely the quickest and most economical solution. If the potential seizure and loss of all the inventory to destruction weren’t already on the table I might agree with you. The flooding works ahead of time but not after the fact.
So, you're an admitted nut trafficker.
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