by Effie Moore Salem

Created on: March 02, 2009

Recent FDA reforms:

The Government's agency that oversees food and drugs and cosmetics and all other FDA peripheral products concerns began in 1862 with a lone employee, a chemist. In 2002 the staff was made up of over nine hundred of medical scientists of every description, as well as lawyers and accountants and office workers. Due to the depressed economy it may now be more, the same, or less. Lone thing is certain: Over the years there have been many reforms concerning ingredient labeling for packaging, drug inspection and enforcement programs, laboratory practice reforms, new guidelines for children under six medications, generic drugs, and while not regulatory - only recommendations- notes on the drug pyramid.

1.Labeling of food packaging is now in full force and you can be sure that what is in the can or the package or the frozen food is what is listed in the label is on the package. This was good news to gluten intolerant individuals, those allergic to nuts, milk and a host of other products. A lot of thanks for this go to the persistent overseers of gluten free foods. Inclusive here are sufferers and those supplying food. To say the least, this is a comforting and forward move by the FDA. Expect this to be regulated even further as more is learned about food allergies and intolerant foods and when these are see as major contributors to the overall disease picture.

Diseases in themselves feed off each other. This means that the body in an attempt to cure or bring about a balance in the body via the immune system disrupts or neglects other bodily systems by rushing all available resources, nutrients, oxygen, and electrical stimulation to the area of most need. This often creates a shortage elsewhere. What does this lopsided affair account have to do with FDA reforms? When more is known about how food and drugs react warning labels may well be placed on some foods as well as drugs and cosmetic products warning against this or that probability.

Of course, the FDA staff could change course and decide the best way to react to this situation is by better health and biological education beginning in kindergarten. This will be called preventive medication and it will show, among other things how respect for all bodily processes and will, if carried out well, will become a way of life. On the other hand, the pendulum could swing the other way and less intense and invasive procedures may become the norm and emphasis will be on creating a world in which bodies and

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