Protect Your Right to Natural and Bio-available Vitamin B-6! [Archive]

Hotspring 44

04-06-2010, 10:05 PM

I am bothered about the <link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CSH%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style>  </style>ruthlessness of the Pharmaceutical corporations that in :2cents:my opinion are thieving our basic right to life in regards to the actual necessary nutrients one by one:2cents:; in this case vitamin B-6.

Is there anybody else here on waccobb that feel the same as me about this? :hmmm:Or is it just me?:hmmm:
just to clarify what I am talking about, here is the link to the web page of the following article from Alliance for Natural Health USA:
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering a petition filed by a pharmaceutical company, Medicure Pharma. The company is requesting a ban on dietary supplements containing pyridoxal 5’-phosphate (P5P), the bio-active and natural form of vitamin B6.   
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This is not the first time that the FDA has been petitioned to ban a natural form of B6. In January 2009, the Agency responded to a petition from another drug company, Biostratum, by banning the sale of pyridoxamine—one of three forms of vitamin B6 found in nature—and declaring pyridoxamine a “new drug.” By receiving a favorable ruling from FDA, Biostratum now has a solid monopoly on the sale of pyridoxamine and hopes to gain approval for a drug containing it.   
<u1:p></u1:p> The FDA’s outrageous ruling—a complete ban on the sale of pyridoxamine so that a drug company can convert it into a prescription drug-- threatens the future of other vitamins and natural ingredients.   
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The currently pending petition filed in November 2007 by Medicure Pharma admits that P5P is a naturally occurring molecule in the vitamin B6 family and thus qualifies as a dietary supplement. Medicure’s point of contention is that P5P in dietary supplements will infringe on profits from a drug the company is currently developing, which includes P5P as an active ingredient!
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With surprising candor, Medicure states in it’s petition, “Pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs must be protected from companies that may seek to market the ingredients in those drugs as dietary supplements.

The marketing of such products has the potential to undermine the incentive for the development of new drugs, because many people may choose to purchase the supplements rather than the drugs” [italics ours]. Never mind that natural B-6 has been in the food supply for as long as human beings. According to this reasoning, any drug company has the right to appropriate any part of our diet and make it into the protected property of the drug company. This is outrageous reasoning which the FDA has already, through its Biostratum ruling, bought into.  
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Medicure also believes, according to the petition, that the FDA’s role is to “balance, on a case-by-case basis if necessary, the competing interests of dietary supplement and pharmaceutical companies.”  
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Last time we checked, FDA’s mission was to protect and advance the public health. So if P5P already exists in nature, we can’t live without it, and has a multiplicity of positive health effects, for example on carpal tunnel, schizophrenia, and cancer, then how does banning P5P further either of the FDA’s goals? 
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Medicure makes no consumer safety claims regarding P5P. Medicure simply wants the ban of a natural product in order to secure a monopoly and says so without pretense. Medicure wants to seize control of a vital market and eliminate the availability of P5P to the general public except via their drug!
<u1:p></u1:p>Once again, your voice needs to be heard.

Please contact the FDA, your Senators and Representative to let them know you want to stop what really amounts to the theft of P5P from the public domain. Thank you for taking the time—your involvement really does make a difference. 
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To view Medicure Pharma’s “citizen’s petition,” click here. (https://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/ContentViewer?objectId=090000648051908f&disposition=attachment&contentType=pdf)
<u1:p></u1:p>To write FDA and your representatives, fill out the form at the bottom of the web page HERE (https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=334).

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Claire

04-12-2010, 11:35 PM

Vitamins B6 and B2 have been miraculous for my carpal tunnel syndrome (when taken with a B-complex, of course). Apparently people with Carpal Tunnel tend to deficiencies of B6. This news of a pharm company suddenly trying to own B6 is beyond belief. Disgusting!

Hotspring 44

04-13-2010, 09:29 AM

Hi claire ossenbeck. Were you able to use the link (https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=334) to write to the FDA & your reps?

Here (https://www.congress.org/) is link to a website that can be used to get the e mail, phone numbers, and mailing addresses of your reps by using your Zip Code;
https://www.congress.org/ :thumbsup:

I did e mail to my reps.:wink:

Vitamins B6 and B2 have been miraculous for my carpal tunnel syndrome (when taken with a B-complex, of course). Apparently people with Carpal Tunnel tend to deficiencies of B6. This news of a pharm company suddenly trying to own B6 is beyond belief. Disgusting!

Claire

04-13-2010, 09:45 AM

you bet, I did! before I made my reply. Thanks for the reminder, though!

Hi claire ossenbeck. Were you able to use the link (https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=334) to write to the FDA & your reps?

Here (https://www.congress.org/) is link to a website that can be used to get the e mail, phone numbers, and mailing addresses of your reps by using your Zip Code;
Congress.org - Get informed, get involved (https://www.congress.org/) :thumbsup:

I did e mail to my reps.:wink: