Drugs and natural health products that are authorized for sale in Canada
will have an eight-digit Drug Identification Number (DIN), a Natural
Product Number (NPN) or a Drug Identification Number for Homeopathic
Medicine (DIN-HM) on the label. These numbers indicate that the products
have been assessed by Health Canada for safety, effectiveness and quality.
## This is the same kind of "cover your ass" double talk the FDA uses to
avoid making decisions.
It costs a lot of money to definitively say yes or no and they don't have
either the money , OR a good reason to spend it in the form of a trend of
any sort of negative reports, despite a hotline to report them, proof of a
connection or not...and no hotline for positive reports.
"When you don't know and haven't come across any reason TO know... just
*say* no"
Then if something DOES pop up, they have their little public safety butts
covered.
Homeopathic products have never been "proven" effective...they are, however
"safe" , if for no other reason that there are virtually no ingredients
left in them to exceed any maximum daily doses of anything ....even if it
were Potassium Cyanide.
And they aren't about to prohibit the sale of Apricot pits or Apple seeds
even though you can kill a kid with them if you try, or are completely
ignorant.
Does this limit "unauthorized" sales of any product that make no claims of
health benefit and have NOT been assessed?
If no claims of effectiveness are made, evaluations of effectiveness is a
moot point...nothing to live up to.
Since EIS can be easily made from Canadian coins, it's pretty obvious that
"stopping" it will be just about impossible.
The Canadian version of the EPA has set silver emission and consumption
standards and has evaluated how much in what form over what period of time
is harmful to the aquatic environment and is permissible in potable water
supplies...it's pretty high.
Consumers requiring more information about this advisory can contact Health
Canadas public enquiries line at (613) 957-2991, or toll free at
1-866-225-0709.
## call it and report your positive experiences. [Bet it's a recording of
a standardized scare and you can't tell a machine anything one way or another]
To report a suspected adverse reaction to this product, please contact the
Canadian Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Program (CADRMP) of Health Canada
by one of the following methods:
## It would be interesting to see if anyone has, but that's not why the
contact is there. It's there so they can "say" it's there.
The FDA has a similar program, and no "silver related" callers, according
to FOIA requests coming up with a big fat zero. [even though there have
been a *few* cases from abusing other than "EIS" "silver products" and the
FTC and FDA has taken some actions against a *few* manufacturers who
overstepped the boundaries of the near impossible to play game of proving
negatives. ]
IOW The FDA has had no reason to do any studies that prove anything one
way or another and just place the burden of proof on those who make
claims. No claims and no trend showing harm, no proof required...and the
FDA sidesteps a nearly impossible enforcement nightmare.
It's just water with some silver in it.
Does or doesn't work to do what's NOT on the label?...doesn't matter.
No proof or even official indication of harm? ..just a remote "possibility"
of harm?
Make an unsupported negative statement to cover the buttocks and turn a
blind eye.
End of regulatory problem.
Those silver washing machines are still being sold despite the EPAs
concerns and placing the burden of proof on the washer makers.
I suppose all the manufacturers had to do was point to the EPA studies
pertaining to industrial silver waste discharge that set a much higher
allowable discharge level than a washing machine.
..had the EPA done that to start with?
"Just say no" is safer than being wrong.
Where it comes to humans, there is never one answer to any question.
For instance:
Many many more people who try heroin DON'T become addicts, than do. That
doesn't mean heroin is not addictive, it means that humans aren't
predictable.... and ...."just SAY no" ...covers all of the variations. The
fewer people that DO become addicts are a really big problem, those that
don't ...are no problem.
Lookie, don't make us sort this out... just have that beer we're telling
you to be careful with. OK?
Ode
At 11:36 AM 10/12/2007 -0400, you wrote:
See:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/advisories-avis/2007/2007_115_e.html
So it begins here in Canada
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