Has anyone actually looked at the guide. It lists the proposed contacts for who to go to if you're concerned about being sold snake oil alternative medicines. It's in fact trying to recognise that there are alternative medicines
{quote]This draft guidance, when finalized, will represent the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) current thinking on this topic. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. You can use an alternative approach if it satisfies the requirements of the applicable statutes and regulations. If you want to discuss an alternative approach, contact the FDA staff responsible for implementing this guidance. If you cannot identify the appropriate FDA staff, call the appropriate number listed on the title page of this guidance.
Good or bad it's trying to protect the public and give them somewhere to go and look after the existing statutes.
It's also helpful to teach the public that a little may be good ... more is not necessarily better so regulating it and just because it's "natural" doesn't make it good for you nor is it necessarily desirable that you import the natural product (rhino horn powder comes to mind). So it's unfortunate that stuff like that has to be written down somewhere so the practitioners and the general public has somewhere to go.
Did anyone see the resent research that alcohol damages the female brain faster than the male? That harmless unregulated substance has been consumed by humanity for as long as recorded history can tell. It has long been noticed that more is not necessarily good for you. But to us it's a natural product and used as alternative therapy by some individuals.
There are many ways of looking at this issue. Having read the pdf it seems to me it's only trying to put order to the statutes already in place otherwise this guide could not have been produced so quickly.
Alex
