The communists have infiltrated the FDA
Posted on 02/15/2009 12:53:00 PM PST by vivalaoink
The FDA has effectively banned a naturally-occurring form of vitamin B6 called pyridoxamine by declaring it to be a drug, reports the American Association for Health Freedom. Responding to a petition filed by a drug company, the FDA declared pyridoxamine to be "a new drug."
Now, any nutritional supplements containing pyridoxamine will be considered adulterated and illegal by the FDA, which may raid vitamin companies and seize such products. See the history of FDA raids on vitamin companies here: http://www.naturalnews.com/021791.html
Pyridoxamine occurs naturally in fish, chicken and other foods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B6), putting the FDA in the strange position of banning a substance from dietary supplements even though it is already present in the food supply.
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What???
Does this mean they’re gonna start regulating Cheerios?
And I thought I was making a joke about a drug company developing B6 for us..
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fr051118.html
They’re going to have to rename them Unhappyos
The FDA is getting bribes from drug companies.
These guys are gunna ban everything good for us and starve us to death.
We’ll end up eating tons of food and still be malnourished.
They’ve been talking about regulating the health food stores for a long time. This looks like “Stage One”.
Didn’t they ban L-Triptophan (sp?) years ago and now it’s ok? It naturally occurs in dark meat of turkey’s ... no, that that one, the other one ....
“We’ll end up eating tons of food and still be malnourished.”
Actually I think they’ll be little green crackers.
So, is B6 needed for anything?, or should I run out and buy B Complex while it’s still in the stores?
We may just all be lined up every week to receive our “vitamin shots” at a government clinic” along with an “eating depression” shot.
And yet the oh so trendy liberal morons who shop Whole Foods will continue to hail their new overlords. “Bummer, dude, we can’t get B6 any more. Hey, did you get your Obama coins yet?”
Can I just combine B2 and B4? Or take half a B12?
Cripes.
I wish that they could come up with a new drug.
One that would cure the mass insanity that is endemic to and epidemic in Washington, D.C.
Damn !!!
SOLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE....
I thought they were unable to do this. Didn’t some Act of Congress a few years back tell them that anything that was GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) at that time was grandfathered in, and FDA couldn’t mess with it?
This amounts to stealth legislation and SHOULD NOT be tolerated!
I’ve never heard pyridoxine referred to as pyridoxamine before, but it seems pyridoxamine may be a fundamental source of pyridoxine or something to that effect.
Vitamin B6 is generally referred to as pyridoxine in medical circles.
Many multivitamins out there contain pyridoxine. Centrum Silver contains it, and refers to it as pyridoxine, not pyridoxamine.
The FDA seemes destined to force every person in the nation to despise it. This is a stupid stupid thing to screw around with. It’s uncalled for, and is the sort of thing that does little more than anger people.
Does this mean I'll have to get a doctor's prescription before going fishing?
If not, it will soon enough.
There were some deaths associated with L-Tryptophan years ago. They did take it off the market, although it was unclear if that was a fully thought out decision.
There was a problem that was attributed to the product over and above deaths, but I don’t remember exactly what it was, or if it was completely disassociated with the adulterated product.
My wife takes a plethora of vitamins every day, and we just checked and they contain B6. She’s such a druggie! LOL!
Interesting: Here is a story about how the Biotech firm who patented B6 was having a little trouble until they got Big Brother involved.
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2005/10/17/story2.html
tee hee :-)
Better not drive around with a bottle of Centrum Silver in your car, otherwise the DEA/LE may seize your car and your shirt, felon.
My Purity Products “Perfect Multi Super Greens” have it. Labeled as Pyridoxine.
I think you mean "SOYLENT GREEN" IS PEOPLE....!
LOL
What? Are you calling me old? :)
The communists have infiltrated the FDA
And,,,, my Solgar B-Complex has it listed as Pyridoxine HCL.
I have a B6 deiciency.
Oh joy.
It won’t be long until mandrake is banned as well.
....and fluoride mandatory.
The outlook for our precious bodily fluids looks dim.
Here's a brief backgrounder on the nomenclature, for what it's worth.
B6 I was always told would be good for menstrual cramps and migraines. Since these 2 maladies are predominently ocurring in woman it seems to be discriminitive!
I never could spell right......thanks for the correction...
The Vitamin Bs have generally been considered good for people. I just check our cereal boxes, and four out of five had Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) listed as in ingredient.
Hey, if CO2 is a pollution, then B6 is a drug. right? Next they’ll be taxing sex and humor.
Vitamin B6 works with enzymes that break down histamine, improves tolerance of histamine, and decresease the number of histamine-caused headaches. Vitamin B6 has been shown to increase the intracellular accumulation of magnesium. Vitamin B6 is also helpful with hormonal headaches—those that come on with the menstrual cycle.
Vitamin B6, also known as pyridoxine is part of the B group vitamins and is water-soluble and is required for both mental and physical health.
Pyridoxine is required for the balancing of hormonal changes in women as well as assisting the immune system and the growth of new cells. It is also used in the processing and metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, while assisting with controlling your mood as well as your behavior. Pyridoxine might also be of benefit for children with learning difficulties, as well as assisting in the prevention of dandruff, eczema and psoriasis.
It assists in the balancing of sodium and potassium as well promotes red blood cell production. It is further involved in the nucleic acids RNA as well as DNA. It is further linked to cancer immunity and fights the formation of the toxic chemical homocysteine, which is detrimental to the heart muscle.
Women in particular may suffer from pre-menstrual fluid retention, severe period pains, emotional PMS symptoms, premenstrual acne and nausea in early pregnancy. Mood swings, depression as well as loss of sexual drive is sometimes noted when pyridoxine is in short supply and the person is on hormone replacement therapy or on birth control pills.
Should you be taking antidepressants, contraceptive pills or be on hormone replacement therapy you may need more of this vitamin. As this vitamin is readily lost in the urine, it must be taken regularly to ensure an adequate amount in the body.
Anybody on a very high protein diet, using alcohol, or allergic to MSG (mono sodium glutamate) and/or tartrazine may also consider increasing their vitamin B6 intake.
Good sources to obtain pyridoxine from are brewer’s yeast, eggs, chicken, carrots, fish, liver, kidneys, peas, wheat germ, walnuts,
http://www.anyvitamins.com/vitamin-b6-pyridoxine-info.htm
Tin foil hat time? Maybe not. A malnourished population is a compliant one...
“And yet the oh so trendy liberal morons who shop Whole Foods will continue to hail their new overlords.”
Exactly. I regularly encounter these idiots on the alt. health forums I frequent.
“Actually I think they’ll be little green crackers.”
lol. yuck.
Look at all of the foods that are going to have to be taken off the food shelves in stores:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/foods-000111000000000000000.html
Thanks for the link.
I may be wrong, but my take on it is that the product most used in food preparations, and medicines are pyridoxine.
That’s not to say that there aren’t any other forms of B6 available in the retail or hospital pharmacies. New items are coming along all the time.
Still, I have spent 35 years in pharmacy, and the vast majority of vitamin B6 used there, in tablet and injectable forms, have been referred to as pyridoxine.
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