Note: Yet another instance of the FDA protecting the profits of the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of the health of the public it is supposed to serve by ignoring the dangers of a patented and highly profitable drug. Shades of Vioxx, Celebrex, Alleve, Gardasil, Fosamax, etc. One can only imagine the FDA's reaction if 336 tendon ruptures had been reported for those who take the best antibotic and pathogen destroyer on the planet - colloidal silver. No doubt, they would have raided the manufacturer with storm troopers and shut it down years ago.
The differences in how the FDA treats patented drugs as opposed to natural supplements is, in my humble opinion, starkly telling. A patented drug with proven instances of harm associated with it's use does not even warrant a consumer warning. On the other hand, a natural alternative, and thus a threat to the profits of the approved drug, such as colloidal silver, is singled out for enforcement action despite virtually no consumer complaints at all - and the media is regularly fed new rounds of bogus scare stories about "blue people" (the blue skin condition known as argyria) to scare the public and justify enforcement actions.
Although as far as I can tell, not one single instance of argyria has been attributed to properly made colloidal silver (instead, the rare handful of instances of argyria, have been associated with silver nitrate products, homemade silver where salt was used, or silver which was made using animal protein to form a suspension and mistakenly call it a colloid), that has not stopped the FDA from continuing to "sing the blues" about silver or from going after those who make and sell colloidal silver products, not, in my strong opinion, because silver represents a whit of threat to human health but rather because it represents a threat to the inflated bottom line profits of the mainstream drug manufacturers.
Zealous protection of mainstream approved drugs and suppression of natural competition is nothing new - look at the estimated 100,000 or more deaths caused by Vioxx before the FDA finally removed it from the market. Look at the ridiculous actions of the FDA when it threatened Washington cherry growers for telling the truth about the health benefits of eating cherries, or at the storm trooper actions against the makers of charantia (bitter melon) tea in Florida who dared put references to some of the 650 plus PubMed studies and citations about bitter melon on their website.
A prime example of such selective enforcement is the continued persecution of CureZone sponsor Utopia Silver, who was been singled out as a special test case for FDA actions against colloidal silver despite the lack of a single consumer complaint.
Finding out who the FDA really serves is a simple task - all you have to do is follow the money.
"The FDA 'protects' the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them.
It isn't.
What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day."
Dr. Herbert Ley
Former U.S. FDA Commissioner
DQ
The differences in how the FDA treats patented drugs as opposed to natural supplements is, in my humble opinion, starkly telling. A patented drug with proven instances of harm associated with it's use does not even warrant a consumer warning. On the other hand, a natural alternative, and thus a threat to the profits of the approved drug, such as colloidal silver, is singled out for enforcement action despite virtually no consumer complaints at all - and the media is regularly fed new rounds of bogus scare stories about "blue people" (the blue skin condition known as argyria) to scare the public and justify enforcement actions.
Although as far as I can tell, not one single instance of argyria has been attributed to properly made colloidal silver (instead, the rare handful of instances of argyria, have been associated with silver nitrate products, homemade silver where salt was used, or silver which was made using animal protein to form a suspension and mistakenly call it a colloid), that has not stopped the FDA from continuing to "sing the blues" about silver or from going after those who make and sell colloidal silver products, not, in my strong opinion, because silver represents a whit of threat to human health but rather because it represents a threat to the inflated bottom line profits of the mainstream drug manufacturers.
Zealous protection of mainstream approved drugs and suppression of natural competition is nothing new - look at the estimated 100,000 or more deaths caused by Vioxx before the FDA finally removed it from the market. Look at the ridiculous actions of the FDA when it threatened Washington cherry growers for telling the truth about the health benefits of eating cherries, or at the storm trooper actions against the makers of charantia (bitter melon) tea in Florida who dared put references to some of the 650 plus PubMed studies and citations about bitter melon on their website.
A prime example of such selective enforcement is the continued persecution of CureZone sponsor Utopia Silver, who was been singled out as a special test case for FDA actions against colloidal silver despite the lack of a single consumer complaint.
Finding out who the FDA really serves is a simple task - all you have to do is follow the money.
"The FDA 'protects' the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them.
It isn't.
What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day."
Dr. Herbert Ley
Former U.S. FDA Commissioner
DQ