According to the email that I received from westonaprice.org, the FDA document number is
2006D-0480. The links in the email didn't work for me, so I went to fda.gov, searched their site and I found 2006-0480.
Here is the email that I received:
FDA GUIDANCE DOCUMENT ON COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (CAM)
You have probably received emails about a new FDA "guidance" document for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, published in the FDA's website. This
document reminds us that FDA believes that under certain circumstances any
vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetables juices can be treated under
current law as FDA-regulated drugs. FDA believes, it appears from the guidance,
that even massage oils could be classified as "medical devices" subject to FDA
approval. The proposal is posted at
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/06d0480/06d0480.htm.
Before sending out this alert, we consulted with Jim Turner, our General
Counsel, who described this FDA document as an "opening shot of little
significance in itself" but an indication of the direction that the FDA would
like to go in expanding its regulation of complementary and alternative
"medicine" products. That direction could include making the use of certain
products currently important to the practice of complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM) a criminal offense, including certain products subject to FDA
control used in conjunction with nutritional counseling, wellness consulting and
many other alternative practices FDA defines as "alternative medicine,".
The comment period ends April 30, 2007. We ask all of you to voice your protest
to this draconian proposal by asking FDA to withdraw this guidance, so that it
goes no further. We also suggest that you urge FDA to conduct one or more
public hearings on how it can effectively defer to state laws governing the
practice of medicine, and can comply with the directions of Federal Courts to
restrict its regulatory practices to the least intrusive actions available under
the law.
Go
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/
COMMENTSMain.CFM?EC_DOCUMENT_ID=1451&SUBTYP=CONTINUE&CID=&AGENCY=FDA to file
your comments in support of natural health care. (Note: You must copy and paste
the entire URL, ending with =FDA, and you might have to copy and paste in two
pieces to get it all.)
To submit comments by letter, be sure to reference FDA Document 2006D-0480:
Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and
Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration, and write to
Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061
Rockville, MD 20853
You may also have been hearing a great deal about the European Codex
Alimentarius lately. We are preparing an Information Alert on this subject and
will be sending it out shortly.