US Food and Drug Administration Allowing Comsumers To Be Scammed By Big Businesses Rockville Maryland

Hello, I am writing this report to bring it to the publics attention that the FDA is allowing many products to be sold in the US without making the company follow the proper practices for posting nutrition info.

There are thousands of examples of this, but I will list just two. One is called Simply Nutrilite and is sold by Quixstar an MLM company

http://www.quixtar.com/products/thumbnail.aspx?pid=9712&ctg=16108

The other is Vicks Vitamin C Drops
http://www.vicks.com/vitamin-c-drops-info.php

Both of these products contain sugar, but sugar the amount of sugar contained in the product is not listed anywhere on the packaging nor is it listed online. The Simply nutrilite contains a lot of natural sugars from the fruit they contain, but even these must be listed for persons on sugar restricted diets and persons with diabetes. As in the case of the Vicks Vitamin C Drops, if you look at the ingredients you will see that the second ingredient listed is corn syrup which is a sugar composed mainly of glucose. Nowhere does the package list how much of it, but it is important to note that on packaging, ingredients are listed by the amount of it in the product, so the first ingredient will be what has the highest percentage, the second ingredient, the second highest and so forth.

The FDA is really doing consumers an injustice by letting companies not list the amounts on vitamins and certain other products.

The FDA also allows products to be sold which has not been tested on humans, for example sucralose (splenda) which I should also note is the main ingredient in the Vicks. The ingredient in sucralose was originally developed to be a pesticide.

Sucralose has shown to cause all of the following in lab animals:

Research in animals has shown that sucralose can cause many problems in rats, mice, and rabbits, such as:

* Shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage)
* Enlarged liver and kidneys.
* Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus
* Increased cecal weight
* Reduced growth rate
* Decreased red blood cell count
* Hyperplasia of the pelvis
* Extension of the pregnancy period
* Aborted pregnancy
* Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights
* Diarrhea

There was no human testing done except for the live testing being done on our children every time we give it to them (Splenda gives free splenda to children's bake sales etc.) http://www.womentowomen.com/nutritionandweightloss/splenda.aspx

The FDA also allows aspartame (nutrasweet, equal)to be sold as a sweetener and this has been shown to cause cancer in lab animals and even humans:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/28/health/webmd/main712605.shtml

However all natural plant products such as stevia (http://www.stevia.com) cannot get approval from the FDA.

Another fact is that certain ingredients in a product can be left off the ingredient list period or listed and being 0% if there is a very tiny amount of it in the product, I cannot remember the exact amount but uts under 1%. So basically I can put poison in a product and once its something like 0.3% I dont have to list it.

Obviously persons in these companies must be buddies with some top ranking officials in the FDA and or paying them off for these kinds of things to be happening in this day and age.

I just wanted to pring these things to the public's attention and it is not an attack on any of the companies listed and Vicks and Nutrilite were just used as examples, however there are hundreds of other companies being allowed to do the same thing.

I think something should be done about this and there needs to be a body something like ripoffreport.com and badbusinessbureau.com to be ran by regular comsumers who overlooks a lot of these things because obviouslt the FDA is not doing their job.

Mike
Miami, Florida
U.S.A.

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