FDA charges websites with illegal silver promotion
{Editor's Note: Colloidal silver, a suspension of fine microscopic partices
of silver in water, was in common use prior to 1938, the year that the
FDA was established. All health related products that were in common use
before the FDA was extablished were considered "grandfathered in" and not
subject to regulation by the FDA. This 'declaration' is both illegal and
unconstitutional, but it's going to take a lenghty and expensive court
fight to push them back-unless the public gets riled up and starts screaming
REAL loud.]
WASHINGTON, Nov 06 (Reuters Health) - The US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has cracked down on 16 websites for illegally promoting
the dietary supplement colloidal silver as a
drug.
In letters to the companies, the FDA says its review of the websites
has concluded that colloidal silver and other products are promoted for
conditions that may cause them to be drugs. The claims the 16 websites
make, such as touting colloidal silver as an antibiotic, antifungal, burn
treatment or cure-all, "establish their intended use as drugs," the agency
says. "FDA is aware that Internet distributors may not know that
the products they offer are regulated as drugs or that these drugs
are not in compliance with the law," the agency says in the letters,
noting that "many of these products may be legally marketed as dietary
supplements or as cosmetics if certain therapeutic claims are removed from
the promotional materials."
Reuters Health called the operators of several of the websites on Monday,
but none returned the calls.
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