Reps for Voting in Poll (Research paper)

[stevedm]

voted. good thread. reps to you.

[JohnnyB21]

I voted No. Do you know how expensive it is to do clinical trials and how long it takes to get a product to market? Are you suggesting phase I, II, III, and IV trials? This is how the FDA separtes drugs from dietary supplements. You're suggesting that the FDA regulate dietary supplements as drugs. I assume, in your presentation/research paper you're going to consider red yeast rice and lovastatin as an example...(Foxglove) digitalis and digoxin, etc...

Once you start with having to prove safety and efficacy through vigorous clinical trials, according to the FDA, they become drugs. Then, they can advertise past the structure/function claim on the label.

Price of supplements would skyrocket due to all of the costs involved with clinical trials, patents, etc....


You know about DSHEA of 1994? If not, I suggest reading it.

[Misctake7]

Voted

[coolaidml]

Voted. If the FDA actually dealt honestly and only cared for the well being of the people then I'd say yes but they are far from that. It's all about money for them and they have the pharma companies backing them which hate natural supplements...

[ap28allday]

Voted

[Faust24]

the bias of this forum will show its face, but any intelligent individual would vote yes

Thanks for the insult, its hard to take you serious since you say I can not be intelligent and disagree with you.

less power because they are controlled by big pharma. I don't like my choices being taken away from me from some perceived danger that may or may not be real.

Agreed.

Now, for propiety blends, I disagree with this process and I think alot of people do. Look at MuscleTech, they pulled that lost alot of customers, and because of Free Market NOT goverment regulation, they changed. How hard is it for you to take responsibility for yourself and research products on forums like this. Why do you need the nanny state to tell you what to spend your money on?

I would like to make one other point.
Supplements are safer than Drugs and Whoel foods.
*Adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals is 62,000 times more likely to KILL a U.K citixen than a food supplement.
*An individual is 900 times more likely to die from food poisoning than from a supplement.
*The risk of death from using supplements and herbal products is less than 1 in 10 million, which is about equal to the odds of being killed by lighting.

OK I know I said that was last point one more. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/d...tural/924.html
Notice the .gov, its goverment website,
Likely effective for...Treatment and prevention of niacin deficiency, and certain conditions related to niacin deficiency such as pellagra

I hate reading a supplement bottle and seing it may help with...

Because FDA, our goverment, and Big Pharma refuse to take vitamins serious: they will not even give them credit for what they can do. Next they are gonna say water is likely effective for treating dehydration.....

[kwegner21]

Voted!

[kingnickandnate]

A poll on BB.com got approved as a primary source on the research paper I am working on. This means you guys get my reps (not a lot but I will rep everyone who votes even if it takes a month).

Mods if this section is inappropriate for my thread please move it to a section you believe would suit it better, Thanks.

Also voters after voting can you post a short statement about why you chose what you picked? Thanks a lot.


My topic is should the FDA have increased power and authority in the area of dietary supplements. These powers would cover testing supplements to prevent hazardous and contaminated supplements from reaching the market along with the powers to force companies to conduct clinical trials and research into benefits and side effects of products (instead of the current system where disclaimers under outlandish claims exist).

Thanks for voting everyone!

Voted. Goodluck on the results / paper

[BubbaDoc]

Voted...Hoping for an A+ on that paper.

[BLA5PHEMY]

Voted.

Im not very knowledgeable on the current FDA regs. But, as I see it now companies are responsible for reporting the ingredients they provide in a supplement and the FDA is responsible for approving, banning and regulating potentially harmful ingredients. I think this is a reasonable procedure. I do think that proprietary blends should not be allowed though so that consumers know exactly what they are buying.

As others have said I would not want to give them more power because it would probably just result in more bureaucracy. Large companies paying off officials and small companies being shut out because they won't pay to play. Which would just result in higher costs for consumers without any real advances in quality.

I don't think there is a serious danger with supplements. Most of the horror stories I hear are about people abusing products which will always happen. You can die from water if you drink too much of it...

[BrotherCalves]

Because the FDA has a piss poor track record, no thanks jeff

[KBkilla]

The FDA should be abolished, and the free market should be left to handle issues like this.

[Forest239]

11 days of reps ATM damn I think thats enough, Thanks everyone

[E_P_C]

11 days of reps ATM damn I think thats enough, Thanks everyone

Dont rep me

Curious, its hard to tell from your OP, do you think the FDA needs full regulation or just to implement more procedures for companies to go through?

[sfalcon1]

voted.

[deebee83]

voted...actually had to put some thought in to it. Good luck on the paper bro.

[bodeh66]

voted

[YoungEx20]

FDA should have reduced power because I believe people should decide for themselves what they want to put into their body (within reason).

Oh and voted

[Forest239]

Dont rep me

Curious, its hard to tell from your OP, do you think the FDA needs full regulation or just to implement more procedures for companies to go through?

More procedures, I didn't make it clear enough in OP but I am supporting three changes (This is a regular english paper so not going to do much lol)

-The ability to blanket ban derivatives of controlled substances (Dat der celltech dilemma)
-Joint government/corporation studies on generic compounds and effects (creatine, Acety L-Carnitine, etc)
-The establishment of a independent watchdog agency to test batches of products for heavy metals and other contaminants