Hello Ode, I am sure you have seen this FDA communication...
http://www.happyherbalist.com/fda_report.htm I found the language very interesting. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ode Coyote" <odecoy...@windstream.net> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 6:42 AM Subject: Re: CS>FDA approval > If you need "approval" for everything you do, you'll never do anything. > > The very reason we make EIS and use it is because we are CHEAP and don't > give a hoot WHAT the FDA says. > Besides > Even the FDA can't afford to test things to their own standards. > > Their "final word" [in so many words] reads like: > "We don't know, we don't want to know, we've found no reason to want to > know....so shut up and do what you want to....just don't make claims and we > won't have to come down there and slap you > ..and if you ASK, we'll just say no to cover our buttocks.....so don't ask. > " [Likewise with the Product Safety Commission....if we don't know, just > say no to be safe.] > > "Not proven safe and effective" [FDA double talk] just means it hasn't > been tested, which ISN'T proof of being unsafe or ineffective. > > The FDA situation is such that they can't afford to prove ANYTHING and > have to rely on those that CAN afford to...which can have a few "problems" > now and then. > But then, yanking something from the shelves to cover their buttocks in > the face of a consumer scare, has happened many times. > > But never with EIS. > They are far more concerned with what's ON bottle, than what's in it. > > FOIA request has established that the FDA has no matching records > concerning "EIS" of any reported cases, yea OR nay. > > If it works, no harm done.....if it doesn't.....loop back to the medical > establishment. [and maybe the SAME harm done that would have happened > anyway, had you not tried. ] > > > > Ode > > > > > At 04:52 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, you wrote: > >There has been a LOT of discussion about FDA approvals and what it takes > >to get them and how much it costs, etc. > > > >OK, so? How many people are there now who make their own EIS? > > > >How many people are there in addition who might want to use it if it were > >FDA approved? > > > >Hundreds? Thousands? More? > > > >Individually we do not have the resources of a large pharmaceutical > >company, but together, all thousands of us, maybe we could put together > >the wherewithall to do the research, conduct the tests, and perfect a > >product that could be FDA approved! > > > >Why not? > > > >Any interest out there, besides me? > > > >Dick > > > > > >-- > >The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > > >Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > > >To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > > >Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > > > >The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > > > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > > >