The following is a news item that I just read on the internet: >Online Firm Agrees to Stop Peddling Laetrile - FDA >Reuters >Nov 17 2000 5:44PM
>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug >Administration (FDA) said on Friday it forced a company >selling laetrile online to stop peddling the compound as a >cancer "cure." >Laetrile, derived from the pits of apricots and other fruit, has >never been shown to work against cancer and can cause >cyanide poisoning. >New York-based Christian Brothers Contracting Corporation >and its president, Jason Vale, signed a consent decree of >permanent injunction in which it agreed to stop selling any >laetrile products, the FDA said. >"It is an agreement between the parties and it means he has >agreed to stop selling, manufacturing, processing and >distributing any products referred to as Laetrile, vitamin B-17 >or apricot kernals," FDA spokeswoman Susan Cruzan said >in a telephone interview. >"What this case actually demonstrates is that FDA is willing >to take action against products that are marketed over the >Internet and that violate the Food, Drug and Cosmetic >Act." ....<snip> a federal judge in Florida had issued a >preliminary injunction barring three firms from promoting or >marketing products containing laetrile -- Florida-based >World Without Cancer Inc. and The Health World >International Inc., and one Arizona firm, Health Genesis >Corp. .... -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
