From: lpb@STRATUS.SWDC.STRATUS.COM
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Subject: FDA still at large
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:48:13 GMT

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From: delisle@eskimo.celestial.com (Ben Delisle)
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Subject: FDA still at large
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From: Blanc Weber <blancw@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 16 92 08:26:47 PDT
Subject: FDA Still At-Large

I read this in the PCC July newsletter (Puget Sound food cooperative -
usually not an anti-authoritarian type, although pro-alternative health
method).  The article is by Carolyn Reeder, and this is an excerpt.
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The FDA and state authorities continue actions against natural health
businesses.  In May, a chain of stores (Ye Seekers) was raided in
Texas, and many items confiscated.  On the home front, Dr. Wright has
still not been apprised of any charges from the Tahoma Clinic raid, a
similar situation experienced by other FDA-raided establishments.

Overhauling of the FDA seems in order.  It goes against one's sense of
justice that the FDA can so abuse the rights of natural health
establishments; that it can subject these businesses to searches and
seizures of items worth thousands of dollars, and neither be held to
any normal due process of law nor be required to bring charges against
the businesses for years afterward (Century Clinic in Reno and others);
that those who have the courage to sue the FDA risk additional raids
(Century Clinic and Tahoma Clinic in Kent, WA); or may risk, in the
case of nonmedical people, investigation by the IRS.  (A woman in
California reports that in her effort to obtain a lawyer to sue the
FDA, the 24 attorneys she contacted all refused the case because of
fear of retaliation via the IRS).

This brings to mind very serious questions few might dare propose:  in
the case of Dr. Wright's back taxes, did the IRS (under direction of
the FDA) push through the laws that created the back-tax assessment in
order to harm Dr. Wright specifically, since he is a successful
alternative physician.  Does collusion exist between these agencies,
and if so, to what extent?  Why is it that even if a seizure is
challenged successfully, the FDA is not required to reimburse the
raided company's expenses?  -  as in the case of Traco Labs of
Champaign, Illinois, that so far has paid over $180,000 in legal fees
to successfully challenge an FDA seizure and is still in court after
four years.

The FDA, rather than doing investigations, seems to be badly in need of
*being* investigated.
For more information read:
1) "History of a Crime" by Harvey W. Wiley, M.D. (the first head of the FDA)
      Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., Publisher
      506 Mills Building, WA, D.C., 1929

2) "The Healing of Cancer" (which exposes the efforts to suppress
      alternative cancer treatments by the FDA, the American Cancer
      Society, the National Cancer Institute, and the American Medical
      Association) by Barry Lynes

3) "The Dictocrats" published by Books for Today
     (recommended by Dr. Wright)
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