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goodgawd. You'd think they'd have some better way to waste our money. And that "consumer" group needs to evaporate. How childish.
Or are they possibly a front or lobby group for a drug company... :smirk:
 
Geesh! How many other foods would fall into the "drug" category if their value were to be quantified? Where does this end?? :rolleyes:
 
bugimike said:
Geesh! How many other foods would fall into the "drug" category if their value were to be quantified? Where does this end?? :rolleyes:
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With white boxes and containers for everything, block letters as naming convention. Remember "generic" packaging? Putting artists and copy writers on the street. :madder:

Make no claims, make no 'mistakes'... you will be prosecuted. :shocked:

Oh, heck. Now I'm for it.

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-size: 20pt">RUTABAGA!!!</span></span></span>
 
I need a prescription for Cheerios now? :crazy:

Images of guys in trench coats with boxes of Cheerios attached to the lining, "Yo,yo,yo, I got what you need, I'll hook you up." News reports covering DEA raids on warehouses full of Cheerios, or a remake of Miami Vice, with Crockett and Tubbs chasing clandestine cereal traders......
 
I like Cheerios Crunch.
 
I worked in government regulation (in a completely different industry and capacity) for years. It's really very simple to see what's going on here.

When the public decides that a certain act, like giving specific and precise claims of health benefits, needs to be controlled, then you need to control it every time it occurs or else when it is needed the legal precedent of not doing so (even once) will render any actions moot.

Those ads from General Mills aren't being stopped by the FDA (procedurally in this case by making the product pass the appropriate tests) because it's believed the claims aren't true. Nor is it being done because there is a genuine belief that <span style="font-style: italic">Cheerios</span> contain drugs. <span style="font-weight: bold">It's being done because the next guy who puts talcum powder in a capsule and calls it a cholesterol drug can only be stopped if the legal mechanisms are protected.</span> The only way to do that is to use them <span style="text-decoration: underline">every</span> time they are reasonably appropriate (<span style="font-style: italic">in a <span style="text-decoration: underline">legal</span> sense</span>).

When you've worked in a capacity like this, it's easy to see what's going on. Simply put the FDA has no choice, or else <span style="text-decoration: underline">anything</span> (even poisons) could be marketed as a cholesterol drug and <span style="text-decoration: underline">nobody</span> could stop it.
 
My mistress Steph just asked how many O's are in a Nickle and Dime Bag. She just had visions of our druggy neighbor dealing O's in our alley.
 
Cheerios? Pffft. Everyone knows that if you eat enough FrankenBerry you start to see things.

DaveatMoon has a point, though. Some silly things get regulated just to protect the regulations, and I think this may be the case.

-Wm.
 
DaveatMoon said:
When the public decides that a certain act, like giving specific and precise claims of health benefits, needs to be controlled, then you need to control it every time it occurs or else when it is needed the legal precedent of not doing so (even once) will render any actions moot.
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Same kind of thing ocurred when the FAA decided to crack down on airlines that installed parts that had not gone thrrough the approval process on aircraft. The regulation affected old Pappies restoring antique aircraft. Not whom the Feds intended to nail, but they got caught in the same net.
 
Does the cholesterol reduction of the Cheerios surpass that of the cholesterol in the milk used when eating them?? :confuse: Or do you have to eat them dry to gain the benefit?? :laugh:
 
martx-5 said:
Does the cholesterol reduction of the Cheerios surpass that of the cholesterol in the milk used when eating them?? :confuse: Or do you have to eat them dry to gain the benefit?? :laugh:
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Check with your pharmacist.
 
aerog said:
I'm sorry, but it's just silly.
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As is most "news" these days... :frown:
 
rlwhitetr3b said:
Did you notice that some of the comments agreed with the FDA?

Basil, I'll stop now...
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People are entitled to their opinions :crazyeyes:
 
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