Originally Posted by Eric5273

In theory, yes. But what has happened in recent years is that the top people at the FDA are mostly current and former board members of major drug companies. The FDA has become a joke just like the Defense Policy Board. Instead of being a regulatory body, they have become a lobbying organization for the drug companies within the federal government.

Obviously the existance of such "alternative" and natural therapies hurts drug sales as people who take them tend to be healthier, and some people who are sick will choose the alternative therapy instead of drugs.

The fear I have is that if they get their hands on things like vitamins, is that they will eliminate such things from the market entirely. There will be a study or perhaps several that shows that such things are actually unhealthy, and they will be banned from the marketplace. I suppose such a prediction is quite extreme, but living in this country the last few years, nothing is beyond possibility.