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Why Are Herbal Remedies Not FDA Approved?

by Troy | June 21, 2007 at 11:14 am

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The different herbal remedies that we can all find on the shelves of different drug stores and pharmaceutical companies are not considered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as drugs, but rather treats it as dietary supplements. This means that the different herbal remedies that we buy in order to stay healthy or treat illnesses are not regulated by the FDA as it would with prescription medications, which means that the quality and effectiveness of these herbal remedies can vary from one brand to the next.

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health remedies (not verified)

at 16:42 on May 28th, 2009

If they can tax it they will sell it! Just wait, they will soon sell air. (that must be approved before inhaling)

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at 16:43 on May 28th, 2009

If they can tax it they will sell it! Just wait, they will soon sell air. (that must be approved before inhaling)

lissaRJ (not verified)

at 10:06 on June 14th, 2009

The FDA are bigger terrorists than the Taliban. The Government needs to stay out of the medical field as their is no room for fat wallets & greed in making people well. When big corporate execs in the FDA are allowed to own stock in the pharmacutical companies they monitor, they are doing nothing different than Martha Stewart, right. They (FDA) all need to be sentenced to prison and charged with Murder by Greed against the American people!