Walking will lower your blood pressure. The next thing we know, Nike will
have to classify their shoes as drugs. Polly

"NightMist" wrote in message
...
The FDA decided that low fat foods that contained sufficient oat bran
to qualify could indeed use that labling back in 1997.

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9701/21/nfm/index.html

In view of that, their letter makes no sense.

NightMist
Now I have to go get more wedding finery out of the wash and ironed...
What day of the week is this? I am behinder than I want to be.


On Wed, 13 May 2009 22:13:19 -0400, Megan Zurawicz
wrote:

I don't think that's the point here. The point is that by saying it
lowers
cholesterol et cetera, the FDA is saying "this product WHICH DOES NOT HAVE
TO BE TESTED, AS YOU CALL IT A FOOD is being actually MARKETED AS A
MEDICAL
TREATMENT."

Bottom line is you can't have it both ways: if you want to claim your
product (whether Cheerios or Betty's Framizams or whatever) has medical
benefits, you have to submit it to testing by the FDA as a medication. If
you claim it's exempt because it's a food or a supplement or what have
you,
you cannot then claim it has medical benefits. Because those claims then
stand untested and unproven by anyone.

--pig


On 5/13/09 21:31, in article ,
"NightMist" wrote:



http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Popular..._05122009.html


Yeah.
Right.

I am starting to think that unless something is made entirely of
chemicals that have been extensively tested on kittens, and found to
cause no less than 18 different health problems in at least 50% of the
population, that the government will find _something_ wrong with it
somewhere along the line.

NightMist


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