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GLOBAL NEWS US FDA PLANS TO BAN DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS he US Food and_ Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a proposed mandate that represents the greatest threat to dietary supplements since 1994. Back in the early 1990s, consumers were so alarmed by FDA bullying hat they staged a massive revolt. The result was that Congress passed a law prohibiting the FDA from banning popular nutrients. There was, however, a loophole in he 1994 law. The FDA was given authority to regulate ingredients introduced after 15 October 1994. It has been 17 years, but the FDA as just issued draconian proposals as to how it intends to regulate what it now calls "new dietary ingredients". If implemented, many of the most effective nutrients available will be removed from the market. These include many fish oil formulas and natural plant extracts. In order for these ingredients you are using today to return to the market, the FDA will require manufacturers to conduct outrageously expensive studies using absurdly high doses, in some situations multiplied by a "safety factor" up to 2,000 times the recommended dosage on a per- product basis. The FDA defines dietary supplements as being "new" if they were introduced after 15 October 1994. This means that even certain nutrients that have been safely used over the course of three decades will be subject to the FDA's oppressive policies that mandate costly animal testing. The FDA's new guidelines are so flawed that even nutrients shown to be completely safe in hundreds of human clinical studies would fail to accommodate the unreasonable safety margins. For example, each manufacturer of certain fish oils would have to conduct a one-year study where animals would have to consume the human equivalent of 240,000 milligrams of fish oil each day. Another option under the FDA's proposed mandates is to conduct a 90-day, 1,000-fold safety margin study in which two animal species, one being non-rodent (likely, young beagle dogs), will theoretically consume the equivalent of 2.4 million milligrams of fish oil daily. We know of virtually no species that can tolerate this high dose, so, by default, FDA guidelines will make it impossible for certain omega-3 supplements to be sold. Since these are not patented drugs, no supplement-maker will be able to afford these "safety" studies, which means that many of the nutrients you now purchase at low prices will be converted into high- priced drugs. (Source: Mercola.com, 13 September 201, http://tinyurl.com/4237gud) Both countries were unhappy with ElBaradei's "unhelpful" response to ran's nuclear program, but the bid o prevent his re-election to the nuclear regulatory agency's eadership ultimately failed for lack of international support. The 18 February 2005 US State Department cable released by WikiLeaks spotlights US and Australian concerns over the Egyptian diplomat's interpretation hat Iran had a "right" to civilian nuclear power and his reluctance to declare Iran non-compliant with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Source: SpaceDaily.com, 30 August 2o0n, http://tinyurl.com/6lom746) HACKING THE BRAIN f all the storage media you use to keep information that is most important to you, your brain is by far the most complex. Because of the immense amount of data that the human brain can hold, scientists ave been attempting to crack our internal hard drive for quite some time. By building complex models of other brains in the animal kingdom—such as those of mice, cats and primates—and then moving on to humans, researchers WIKILEAKS: USA, AUSTRALIA SCHEMED AGAINST IAEA CHIEF Ts United States and Australia schemed unsuccessfully in 2005 to block Mohamed ElBaradei's election to a third term as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), according to a newly leaked US diplomatic cable. Oxz>——____ <7 DS* port ON Mrensr ete" nce : he ae A Before I bring out th < Keynote speaker, I ask So 3| ye fo turh ry ‘your iPhones 7 and laptops so you _ £26z5/ KY don't keep Googling your own namés = - °-” FDA NEXUS ¢ 7 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com