FDA Stazi Attacks Family Owned Natural Food Distributor

Whole Food USA

8/5/2009

FDA Busts Small Family Food Firm Linking to Health Research

Annette and Ken Fischer, and their family, started a business up near Silver Bay, Minnesota called Wilderness Family Naturals in 2000 to supply healthy nutrient-dense products like coconut oil, dried berries, and spices over the Internet. Just five years into it, their dreams were shattered.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote them a letter in 2005 and told them they were making health claims for their products—for example, providing links to researchsuggesting that certain foods were rich in antioxidants, and providing guidance on how to use herbs—and that amounted to selling foods as drugs.

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