NCAHF Newsletter articles from July 1994

NCAHF Newsletter archives from July 1994

Senate soon to vote on Hatch bill. (Orrin Hatch's bill on dietary supplements)(Adapted from CNI Nutrition Week, May 13, 1994)
July 1, 1994... The dietary supplement industry is rejoicing over a compromise bill introduced by Orrin Hatch, and passed by the Committee on Labor and Human Resources that exempts it from FDA regulations schedule to go into effect on July 1. Under Hatch's...

NCAHF asks FTC to stop antioxidant supplement advertising. (National Council Against Health Fraud, Federal Trade Commission)
July 1, 1994... Citing (1) the Finnish intervention study which found that beta carotene increased significantly the incidence of lung cancer in smokers (a population that was expected to benefit); (2) a case-control study of women with cervical dysplasia...

Senator Hatch using an old lawyer's trick to push his bill. (Orrin Hatch's dietary supplements bill)
July 1, 1994... In order to exempt dietary supplements from the consumer protection provisions of the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act (FDCA), Senator Hatch is saying that FDA "has animus toward supplements" charging that the agency cannot be trusted to give them a...

Montana tries to stop sale of herbal diet product. (E'Ola)(Adapted from the Great Falls Tribune, February 26, 1994)(includes comment)
July 1, 1994... Montana's public health agency asked a Utah company to take its popular E'Ola diet drops off the market after receiving reports of allergic reactions, high blood pressure, a stroke and heart attacks. A user in Washington state reportedly...

Study claims homeopathic remedies efficacious. (Adapted from Pediatrics, 1994;93:719-25)(includes comment)
July 1, 1994... A placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial which compared 18 different homeopathic remedies with identically prepared placebos (said to be 85% sucrose and 15% lactose impregnated [or not] with a 30C potency 1x[10.sup.-60]) on the...

"Orthopractic." (new profession of the National Association for Chiropractic Medicine)
July 1, 1994... The National Association for Chiropractic Medicine (NACM), an organization of reform minded chiropractors that has divorced itself from the unscientific aspects of chiropractic now intends to abandon the chiropractic guild entirely and join a...

Nova Scotia Medical Society okays Complementary Medicine. (Adapted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal 1994;150:1462-5)(includes comment)
July 1, 1994... On Jan 29, board members of the Nova Scotia Medical Society (NSMS) voted to create a section on Complementary Medicine. The move, the first of its kind in Canada, must be ratified during the society's annual general meeting. The section opens...