b'Safety is simply the FDAs toolAssociation (NPA) along with its othermen, women, and children and start to force the public to accept a drug- allies such as the National Health Fed- healing them instead.happy world of medicine. If the FDAeration (NHF). The NPA was able to weretrulyconcernedaboutsafety,strip any such requirement from theEndnotesthen it would halt its enforcement ac- FDA User Fee Reauthorization Act of 1. The Editors, We Need to Better Regulate Nutraceu-tions against the dietary-supplement2022, which was the base bill. ticals, Scientific American, June 2023, at https://www.industry and focus its efforts insteadNHFlobbyistCharlesFrohmanscientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-better-regu-upontheindustrywheretherealstates that, because mandatory listinglate-nutraceuticals/.2. Charles Seife, How Drug Company Money Is Un-deaths occur: the ultra-regulated phar- could prevent the sale of establisheddermining Science, Scientific American, December 1, maceutical industry. supplements important to Americans,2012, at https://www. scientificamerican.com/article/Make no mistake, the Senator DickexpertslikeNPAPresidentDanielhow-drug-company-money-undermining-science/.3. Interestingly, the FDA has already begun using ar-Durbin bill in 2022 that would haveFabricant,Ph.D.,arecharacterizingtificial intelligence (AI) and will no doubt delegate this mandatedthelistingofalldietarythis effort as pre-market approval.ingredients review process to AI. However, the review will supplements with the FDAwhichFrohman and others continue to watchbe deficient if AI is not fed the specific corpus pertaining theScientificAmericansoferventlyfor the resurrection of the Scientificto the countless studies that formulators rely upon for supportswould have driven up di- Americansdreamasanadd-ontojustifying their novel products (and claims) in particular or novel combinations of nutraceuticals or supplements. etary-supplementcosts,destroyedsome bill in this new Congress. This could very well prevent legitimate dietary-supple-jobs and companies, stifled innovationment products from coming to market unless their cor-in the supplement industry, seriouslyConclusion pus entails this dataset and possibly lead to fines levied harmed the health of many millions ofThe Scientific Americans editorialupon manufacturers as well. See, e.g., Patrizia Cavazzoni, FDA Releases Two Discussion Papers to Spur Conver-Americans, and moved consumers yetcasts a strong suspicion that demandssation about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learn-further toward dangerous drugs andan explanation. Did they do their re- ing in Drug Development and Manufacturing, FDA, vaccines and away from safe supple- search or was this just an Op-ed passedMay 10, 2023, at https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-ments. But our paperwork would alloff as real science? Then, from wherevoices/fda-releases-two-discussion-papers-spur-conver-sation-about-artificial-intelligence-and-machine.be in order! did they get their data? Where are the4. Douglas A. McIntyre, The Ten Worst Drug Recalls Itisimportanttorememberthatstatistics? Are they simply coasting onIn The History Of the FDA, 24/7 Wall St, Dec 10, 2010, while mandating supplement ingredi- the confidence of their name and rep- athttps://247wallst.com/investing/2010/12/10/the-ten-worst-drug-recalls-in-the-history-of-the-fda/2/.ent lists may seem like a light regula- utation, which, frankly, is very ques- 5. Edward Dowd, Estimated 2022 US Vaccine Damage tory burden, it may well be the strawtionable after this cheap editorial? Report, Twitter, March 28, 2023, at https://twitter.com/that breaks the camels back when itAlways remember the mainstreamDowdEdward/status/1640734879355682816.6.Peter Gotzsche, Our prescription drugs kill us in comes to small and medium-sized busi- medical orthodoxys endgame, whichlarge numbers, Polish Archives of Internal Medicine, nesses that simply cannot afford yetis to greatly reduce the efficacy, avail- 2014, 124(11): 628-634, at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.another regulatory cost and burden,ability,andaffordabilityofdietarygov/25355584/. 7. See Lucian Leape, Error in Medicine, Journal of the which often must include an FDA-spe- supplements. All of the post-DSHEAAmerican Medical Association, 1994, 272(23): 1851-1857, cialist lawyer as a member of the teamlaws, rules, and regulations for sup- at p. 1851; Lucian Leape, Institute of Medicine Medical in order to stay in business. The bigplements proposed by them have theseError Figures Are Not Exaggerated, JAMA, July 5, 2000, 284(1): 95-97, doi:10.1001/jama.284.1.95.corporations can tell their bank of at- immoral goals of blocking access to8. Moore T, Cohen M, et al., Serious adverse drug torneys and consultants to handle thissafe supplements and instead pushingevents reported to the Food and Drug Administration, 1998-2005, Archives of Internal Medicine, Sept 10, 2007, new burden and the cost of it will bepeopletowardsillhealthandtoxic167(16): 1752-1759, doi: 10.1001/archinte.167.16.1752.lost and forgotten in the many mil- drugs, no matter how much they try9. Ibid. See also Adverse Drug Events Reported To lions of dollars that they make, butto camouflage the endgame with pub- FDA Appear To Have Increased Markedly, Science News, Sept 12, 2007, at https://www.sciencedaily.com/what about the family businesses andlicprotestationsaboutsavingthereleases/2007/09/070910132853.htm.even medium-sized businesses that arechildren or protecting our health. 10. Gummin D, Mowry J, Beuhler M, et al., 2021 already struggling to make ends meet?This fight we are in will continueAnnual Report of the National Poison Data System (NPDS) from Americas Poison Centers: 39th Annual Re-This is a very unnecessary, additionalno matter how many people bury theirport, Clinical Toxicology, 60:12, 1381-1643, athttps://burden to them, and one they do notheads in the sand and wish it away.doi.org/10.1080/15563650.2022.2132768.deserve. Wrong-headed politicians like Durbin11. Ibid. at p. 1607.12.Andrew Saul, Zero Deaths from Vitamins, Zero and careless journals like the Scien- Deaths from Minerals, Health Freedom News, Winter Stopped by NPA tificAmericanwillwinunlessyou2022, Vol. 40, No. 4, at p. 28.In2022,thislegislativenonsenseand I and everyone else who believes13. See, e.g., Senate Bill S.4348, the FDASLA Act of 2022,Congress.gov,athttps://www.congress.gov/wasstronglyopposedandstopped,in health freedom dig our heels in andbill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4348/actions.fortunately, by the Natural Productssay Enough! Its time to stop killing H ealtHF reedomN ews /s ummer2023 9'