Do you trust the FDA?
Answer: The FDA sadly have mostly been an agent of the commercial interest for a long time.
In abundant schools of thought, it is considered to hold lost its integrity or value as an agency when Regan fired the current director and replaced him next to one who would approve aspartame on behest of Donal Rumsfeld.
Nowadays, they just adopt cherry picked studies industries provide and go after after alternative condition practitioners who challenge those industry interests.
Hopefully we don't ratify the WHO article which will give them the authoriy to move about after supplements.
exactly! thats why I don't trust them! they have one motive and i.e. to make money and more of it! outlook is always better than man.at most minuscule the motives of people who promote herb is not money because herbs can't be pantend...you can't brand a company on something that nature supplies! thats why the drug companies don't want you to do any natrual remidies...it take money away from them! Ha I definitely don't trust them. I don't trust profusely of things such as the Dept of Agriculture who let farmers slaughter poor animals contained by those terrible conditions and exploit like they are monitoring them!
Who is the FDA and Who runs it. Drug companies. There is no bearing to patent pure remedies so there is no money contained by it.
Check out what there biggest goal is. what nearby rules are. and who is in charge. Then ask if you trust them. Like everything else the theory was appropriate but money tends to capture in the process. Mostly. They are better at rejecting potential good drugs than at accepting bleak ones. But it is certainly preferable to rely on the FDA than on unproven and undocumented claims from herbalists and other purveyors of "alternative medicine" nostrums.
The problem is that the alternatives society do not study enough to use them responsibly. They think they can a short time ago take it beside no side effects. Ephedra had no warning on it and people took it resembling candy. They didn't connect their heart racing beside taking Ephedra on a daily reason. The alternative meds should have warning on them like do not clutch with blood pressure meds, if pregnant, etc..
The drugs family insist are okay and when you point out that a certain drug kill 5,000 people and another one kill 538 they say but look at adjectives the good it have done for the millions.
Basically it is called biased double standards.
Although the FDA is disappointingly underfunded---it operates for the benefit of the drug companies and medical associations. As of in a minute it is one holy mess. We will never know how much damage the shortage of their doing the job correctly have hurt the health of the american society, not to mention the fatalities. What has the give somebody the third degree got to do beside Aternative medicine?
The FDA does not regulate most herb and supplements.
Not one d* bit. They were the ones that approved things that be later recall!! They can also pass things right through and avoid human trials if here is a perceived "immediate need" for the product. I never use anything that hasn't be around for at least 10 years. I'm not going to be the one to die a freak annihilation from an untested food or drug. NO!! I do not trust them