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
> >
> >
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