Last year the Food and Drug Administration decided that the manufacturer of Cheerios should not boast about some of the cereal's health benefits. "We have determined [Cheerios] is promoted for conditions that cause it to be a drug," the FDA said in a letter to General Mills. A drug? Like Cocaine? By this logic, consumers would need a prescription to buy a box of the oats.
So this is why the FDA doesn’t have the time or personnel to approve the long list of lifesaving drugs that are waiting in limbo for the OK for use by the public.
The FDA has lost three federal court decisions challenging its restrictive labeling policies. the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals stated that it was "skeptical the government could demonstrate with empirical evidence" that health claims made with appropriate disclaimers would "bewilder" consumers, as the FDA claimed.
I am bewildered.
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Kudos to CNBC in their use of the Huffington Post as a reliable source of information on what is going on in our government and the financial institutions in this country. Of ALL of the news sources available to them, AP, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, they chose ‘comedy central.’
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