By Ethan A. Huff
Natural News
Amidst all the destructive activities taking place in our world today that deserve attention, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided instead to make it a personal mission to destroy the businesses and livelihoods of those trying to help people through natural medicine.
On Thursday, April 14, 2011, dozens of agents from the FDA, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted an unprovoked, full-scale raid on Hood River, Ore.-based Maxam Nutraceutics, a company that produces and sells nutritional supplements primarily for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and Alzheimer’s disease.
Back in October 12, 2010, the FDA sent a warning letter to Jim Cole, Founder and CEO of Maxam, notifying him that several of his company’s products were not labeled in accordance with the US Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The letter also stated that Maxam had fifteen days from the receipt of the letter to notify the FDA compliance officer of the specific steps it planned to take in order to correct the violations.
You can view a copy of the FDA warning letter HERE, complete with the name of the FDA compliance officer to whom Jim and his company were instructed to respond, and the FDA district director who sent the letter.
Oddly enough, the vast majority of the “unapproved labels” in question were not actually labels at all. They were merely customer testimonials about the products that had been accumulated over the years from satisfied customers, and posted online alongside product descriptions on Maxam’s website. Nevertheless, the FDA considered the testimonials to be marketing violations that automatically rendered the products as drugs.
According to Jim, his company immediately responded to the FDA letter by calling the compliance officer and telling her “it was [the company’s] intention to come into full compliance as quickly as possible.” This included removing all the offending testimonials from the company website after being told by the FDA compliance officer that they were not permitted.
“I contacted a patent and copyright attorney, and he had written [the compliance officer] a letter that it was our intention to come into full compliance,” said Jim, noting that his company responded within two days of receiving the FDA warning letter, long before the 15-day deadline period. “So we took down the testimonials, and we thought that was good. And I hired an FDA copyright person [who] went over all the offending verbiage through the website.”
Jim cooperated with every demand that the FDA made of him, and was convinced that all was well. But apparently the FDA had different ideas when out of nowhere, the agency, along with the IRS and the FBI, sent as many as 80 armed, SWAT-style agents to both Maxam headquarters, the company’s “Big Gym” training center, and even Jim’s daughter’s house, to confiscate all the products, company documents, and even personal files and computers.
“They took all our products, all our paperwork, all our files — we’ve been doing this since 1992 and they pulled everything,” said Jim. “They brought in three big moving vans, they had their guns on, their bullet-proof vests — they came prepared for war.”
The armed agents also stole 27 TurboSonic machines, which is a sound-actuated vibration plate device that Jim invented to stimulate growth plates in the body, improve circulation, energize the lymphatic system, and improve muscle strength. The TurboSonic machines were not even mentioned in the FDA warning letter.
“We also have a big Olympic training center up here called the ‘Big Gym’ — they went into the gym, they took all the paperwork, all the computer, hard drives, downloaded all of our servers, and trashed a couple of our servers going out,” added Jim. “They took products that were not on the list. I had an old bodybuilding line that went back to 1992, they took all of that. They pretty much just had a free-for-all.”
According to Jim, the agents stole “hundreds of thousands of dollars in products” as part of the raid, as well as personal files, insurance policies, non-printed checks, and even unopened packages of manila filing folders from an office supply store. Clearly, the FDA’s intent was to terrorize and intimidate this small company that, from all available accounts, did absolutely nothing wrong.
Maxam is currently “waiting for the dust to settle” as it pursues legal action against the offending agencies. Until then, the world must know about this terrible injustice and crime against humanity. The FDA has clearly shown itself to be a terrorist organization that has no respect for the rule of law, or for common decency. To perform a SWAT-style raid against a company that was doing everything it could to follow the law and conduct business honestly and legally is a travesty in this supposed “land of the free.”
Tags: big brother, Codex Alimentarius, FBI, FDA, irs, nutritional supplements, nwo, raid, tyranny
That’s one heckuva big assumption, fatcha! The presidential race is nothing but one big dog and pony show set up to divert the masses. We no more vote a presidential candidate in than we take trips to venus. These elections have been arranged by the super-rich for the super-rich. People are allowed to vote only to pacify them and keep them on track to world government enslavement.
well, you voted for obama,
So many instances like this are happening in this formerly but long since free country. It’s too bad this news came out so close to the time in which mindless billions were being enthralled by a royal wedding.
However, the fact that there are those of us out there that actually take the time to search for, learn from and wake up to the truth is heartening. It just takes a few to educate a few more and so on to begin to make the changes that need to be made.
Just keep exposing the truth.
God Bless
Looks like Big Pharma is behind this. They probably want to duplicate the files to make their own drugs to sell. What profound greed! No different than what some pharmaceutical company did with stealing the tribal herbal remedies and notes on a certain island in the South Pacific.
It is over the top. I hope there are some out there, in the right places, now is the time… end they tyranny. IF this is still America, IF there is to be any future at all. They are pushing a depopulation agenda… a blind person can see it.
The juggernaut has been unleashed; there will be no turning back. The war against natural products which actually assist in the search for health are soon to be verboten. Access to the perpetually profiteering patented drugs and food products will be all that is available……by design. We are viewed as property of the state, and property does what it is told, or it is cast aside or put aside. The battle for some semblance of “freedom” is well underway, and freedom is not winning.
If for some reason you think that the FDA or the USDA have any purpose to exist or are much different from Hitlers SS I ask you to read an account of a recent raid of Oregon-based Maxam Nutraceutics. They are implementing the United Nations Codex Alimentarius bureaucratically under the auspices of the great pretender Barry Soetoro. They are telling all of us very clearly that we have no right to the medical care of our choice just as they are telling us that we have no right to choose the food that we put in our bodies. We desperately need to take steps to nullify the actions of these criminals thugs.
They have gone too far. Do you support the theft and criminalization of items meant to help autistic children? If this does not send you over the top like it does me, what is it going to take?
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