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Serious question -- do they have an FDA approval?? Can they produce and sell it without it? Recently learnt about some Amish selling home made honey without FD
by joering2 10y ago
Serious question -- do they have an FDA approval?? Can they produce and sell it without it?
Recently learnt about some Amish selling home made honey without FDA approval; now awaiting trial on a 20 years jail charge.
- protomyth 10y agoCan you point to that story? I know some got caught putting "cures cancer" on the label and that is a big no-no.
- joering2 10y agoYes that was the one. He had a client cliaming she got cancer free. http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-23-amish-farmer-facing-68-years-in-federal-prison-for-making-homemade-products.html http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-23-amish-farmer-facing-68...
- protomyth 10y agoYeah, that's a whole different thing. The FDA is a bit nasty to anyone claiming any health benefit without a study. Ask the cereal companies, they got sued quite a lot. Soylent and others just have to put labels on the food and that can be done without some prior approval. The killer FDA rule that is going to impact a lot of people goes effective for enforcement on May 5.
- saalweachter 10y agoYeah, that's not selling honey, that's selling a beeswax balm and claiming it cures cancer. I'm willing to believe he was a well-intentioned idiot and not a deliberate scammer like Trudeau, but well intentioned idiots kill a lot of people. Honey itself is basically unregulated - you can more-or-less dump unfiltered honey into bottles in your garage and sell it.
- DanBC 10y agoIt's just food, and food doesn't need FDA approval. They've stopped making medical claims for the product. > Recently learnt about some Amish selling home made honey without FDA approval; now awaiting trial on a 20 years jail charge. I'd be inteested to read that case. Most of the cases I've seen people were making clear medical claims ("cures cancer") or selling raw milk.
- XaspR8d 10y agoTotal hypothesis, but don't they not need it since all of the ingredients are already FDA approved?
- ninjakeyboard 10y agoWell first you have to ask where the product fits into the FDA's spectrum. https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm194879.htm https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm194879.h... This is not a supplement or additive so it's a food. It's not a pill you take in addition to your meal but a meal replacement. The best route from here is to see if ensure is fda approved and if it is, what's the value of that stamp? Is it objective 100%? You can't make many assumptions so we must continue on from this point. I"m not sure there are regulatory requirements for a product like this and if there are what is the value? Does an FDA stamp on this supplement mean 100% that a product can replace all food forever?
- dekhn 10y agoSoylent is "regulated as a food by the FDA". I don't know if it was intentional, but your description of the Amish and honey is not completely accurate. The gentleman in question was informed he could not claim a salve he sold cured cancer without evidence. It's not honey, it's a mixture of herbal remedies, some of which are toxic. It's hard to get any true factual information about this specific case because the coverage is almost entirely in heavily biased "news" outlets that focus on "Natural Healing Remedies".
- joering2 10y agoThanks for everyone correcting me. No word for downvoters. I'm sure you never been once wrong in your lifetime...