posted May 13, 2009 01:19 PM         

O'Bomber Food and Drug Administration declares Cheerios is a drug, an unapproved by FDA..drug.

Just when you thought these moron leftists couldn't possibly get any more LooneyTunes than they already are, they declare Cheerios....a drug.

Don't these morons have enough to do up there. They've spent 2 generations of Americans into bankruptcy and they're working on the 3rd generation now. They've nationalized the Auto industry, nationalized the financial sector of the US economy and they're working on nationalizing the entire health care industry into a Socialist system.

Now, they declare war on Cheerios.

Cheerios is a Drug

The Obama Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned General Mills, the makers of Cheerios, that the labeling on Cheerios boxes is in “serious violation” of federal rules.

The letter is here.

Based on claims made on your product’s label, we have determined that your Cheerios® Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal is promoted for conditions that cause it to be a drug because the product is intended for use in the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of disease. Specifically, your Cheerios® product bears the following claims ort its label:

• “you can Lower Your Cholesterol 4% in 6 weeks” ”
• “Did you know that in just 6 weeks Cheerios can reduce bad cholesterol by an average of 4 percent? Cheerios is … clinically proven to lower cholesterol. A clinical study showed that eating two 1 1/2 cup servings daily of Cheerios cereal reduced bad cholesterol when eaten as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol.”

These claims indicate that Cheerios® is intended for use in lowering cholesterol, and therefore in preventing, mitigating, and treating the disease hypercholesterolemia. Additionally, the claims indicate that Cheerios® is intended for use in the treatment, mitigation, and prevention of coronary heart disease through, lowering total and “bad” (LDL) cholesterol. Elevated levels of total and LDL cholesterol are a risk factor for coronary heart disease and can be a sign of coronary heart disease. Because of these intended uses, the product is a drug within the meaning of section 201(g)(1)(B) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321 (g)P)(B)]. The product is also a new drug under section 201(p) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(p)] because it is not generally recognized as safe and effective for use in preventing or treating hypercholesterolemia or coronary heart disease. Therefore,under section 505(a) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 355(a)], it may not be legally marketed with the above claims in the United States without an approved new drug application.

And, General Mills responded that it’s flap with the FDA is a miscommunication on their packaging.

The science is not in question … the clinical study supporting Cheerios’ cholesterol-lowering benefit is very strong. The FDA is interested in how the Cheerios cholesterol-lowering information is presented on the Cheerios package and website. We look forward to discussing this with FDA and to reaching a resolution.”

Ok, you would think the FDA would work with General Mills (which is a large food corporation) in formulating better language in compliance with the law rather than issuing a caustic legal missive which demands a fifteen day response.

Wouldn’t cooperation and compliance be better for the American people than confrontation and gotcha?
http://flapsblog.com/2009/05/12/food-and-drug-administration-warns-general-mills-cheerios-is-a-drug/

posted May 13, 2009 01:32 PM         

Here's an article about a company that's been battling the FDA for 5 years (*cough* previous administration *cough*) ~

(FDAReform) Utopia Silver Supplements is a colloidal silver company based out of Utopia, Texas. This natural supplement company has been battling the FDA for 5 years. In this exclusive interview, Ben Taylor, Utopia Silver Supplement Company owner, discusses his fight to defend the company and the principles of health freedom that this country was founded on. Part 1 introduced the company as well as the health benefits of colloidal silver. Part 2 uncovers why the FDA targeted Utopia Silver and what their underlying tactic is.
http://www.fdareform.org/1057_silver_the_FDA.html

What the FDA is doing is not new news.....

The Bush administration figured out that the fastest way to get the FDA out of the way of Big Pharma's profits was to appoint FDA critics to key positions, thereby changing the FDA from within. This began in August of 2001 when Bush appointed Daniel Troy as chief counsel of the FDA, a man best known for defending tobacco companies. Mr. Troy invited Big Pharma to submit cases to him so that the FDA could help Big Pharma defeat citizens who were complaining that drugs and medical devices injured them. This has resulted in legal case precedent that ties up damage claim cases indefinitely and creates "trade secret laws" wherein the FDA claims it is legally obligated to withhold drug risks from the public to protect Big Pharma's proprietary knowledge.

Another active critic of the FDA, Scott Gottlieb, M.D., a Wall Street biotech sales rep and member of the American Enterprise Institute was invited into the FDA to rewrite its medical policy. Shortly after that Bush appointed him to the number two position at the FDA, even though he was a young and inexperienced physician with no expertise in drug safety -- just a major agenda to bring unproven drugs to the market with far less safety or effectiveness testing for the benefits of Wall Street.

posted May 13, 2009 02:26 PM         

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The FDA is interested in how the Cheerios cholesterol-lowering information is presented on the Cheerios package and website

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Of course jwhop, if it isn`t presented on a teleprompter, it just ain`t so

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted May 13, 2009 03:05 PM         

The other side of the argument is that the long approval times for FDA approval and the Billion Dollar price tag to get new drugs approved were costing people their lives.

Nevertheless, I'm ready to run the entire bunch of bloviating chair warmers out of Washington..ALL. Care to join up and fight the good fight?

juni, I wonder what President Teleprompter's teleprompter would say about...Honey Nut Cheerios?

posted May 16, 2009 11:40 PM         

I think it’s time we applied the same advertising standards to Washington’s legislative products that the feds apply to breakfast foods. The Food and Drug Administration rapped General Mills this week for making misleading claims about the benefits of Cheerios. The food manufacturer says the whole-grain O’s are “clinically proven to lower cholesterol.” The FDA demanded packaging changes to ensure truth-in-labeling.

Well, how about the bogus marketing of the fiscal “stimulus?” President Obama and the Democrats promoted the trillion-dollar package as job creation salvation. The White House claims 150,000 jobs have been “created or saved.” But since February, the nation has lost more than 1.3 million jobs. The current 8.9 percent unemployment rate in the wake of stimulus passage is worse than the 8.8 percent unemployment figure Obama’s economists darkly predicted if Congress didn’t immediately adopt their recovery plan. (See Innocent Bystanders.)

The “stimulus” was supposed to provide aid to the country’s neediest areas. It’s not. The Associated Press reported after reviewing 5,500 planned transportation projects that “states are planning to spend 50 percent more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment than in communities with the highest.”

President Obama promised that Americans would be able to track “every dime” of the “stimulus” at one, handy clearinghouse website. They won’t. The Recovery.gov site data won’t be fully available until next spring – halfway through the program.

Washington told us the “stimulus” projects were “shovel-ready” and would provide immediate relief. They’re not. The New York Times notes that the program “has paid out less than 6 percent of the money, largely in the form of social service payments to states.”

Democrat leaders baldly claimed that “There are no earmarks” in the bill. But untold tens of millions of dollars are headed to pet projects such as skateboard parks, tennis and basketball court renovation, the National Zoo, the $11 million Bridge to Microsoft, and Pennsylvania King of Pork Rep. John Murtha’s ghost airport to nowhere.

More falsely-labeled products in the Capitol Hill pantry: How about the “Toxic Assets Relief Program?” The trillion-dollar-plus banking bailout morphed from a toxic assets purchase plan to a capital injection plan, back to a toxic assets purchase plan, to a life insurance company bailout, to an auto supplier bailout, and may now be used to bail out the state of California. Supporters of that maneuver argue that TARP should be extended to every cash-strapped state and local government to guarantee their debts against default.

How about “Social Security?” There’s nothing secure about it. While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scoffed during the Bush years that “the so-called Security crisis exists in only one place – the minds of the Republicans,” the insolvency problem festered. Now, the Obama administration reports that both Social (In)security and Medicare are hurtling toward bankruptcy far sooner than previously estimated. The “trust funds” exist only in the minds of the deluded.

And just this week, Congress collaborated with the White House to conjure up a misleading description of President Obama’s $108 billion bailout of the International Monetary Fund. They’re advertising the expenditure as a “line of credit” with the “hope to get the money back,” according to the Wall Street Journal. “So the White House argued that the budgetary impact should be calculated at zero.” That’s right. Capitol Hill is officially claiming that $108 billion = zero.

If Beltway spending plans were breakfast cereals, they’d be yanked from grocery stores in a heartbeat. Their promises and premises are as full of holes as a box of persecuted Cheerios.
http://michellemalkin.com/

posted May 17, 2009 01:54 AM         

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The White House claims 150,000 jobs have been “created or saved.” But since February, the nation has lost more than 1.3 million jobs. The current 8.9 percent unemployment rate in the wake of stimulus passage is worse than the 8.8 percent unemployment figure Obama’s economists darkly predicted if Congress didn’t immediately adopt their recovery plan.

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