Minutus

Saw these mints at the check out counter of my local food coop. Nothing
homeopathic in them but it said "homeopathic" right across the top of the tiny
box. That might be the beginning of calling a lot of things homeopathic which
are not. I'm going to have to complain to the store manager.

Bet it won't do any good, Carol. There are many, many products like this - things you'd never suspect all of a sudden say "homeopathic", with the implication that they are so natural they could never hurt you. Luckily, most of them have nothing remotely homeopathic about them - or, at the least, a couple of 3x potencies of some benign, more or less, remedy like arnica or calendula, mixed in with the mineral oil and FDC red.

This certainly gets the word out there, if not the concept. But I don't see how it helps at all to have us confused with patent medicines.

ginny

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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 21:26:08 -0500
Subject: [Minutus] What about calling some breath mint homeopathy when it obviously is not?

Saw these mints at the check out counter of my local food coop. Nothing
homeopathic in them but it said "homeopathic" right across the top of the tiny
box. That might be the beginning of calling a lot of things homeopathic which
are not. I'm going to have to complain to the store manager.
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Posted by: "Carol Orr"

Please do, but you have no LEGAL leg to stand on.
USA Federal Law protects the use of the term "homeopathic remedy"
but NOT the use of the term "homeopathic" or any other version of "homeopathic" use.
CellTech was the legal case which defined it. They used to sell their remedies made OTHER than by Hahnemann methods as "homeopathic remedies"
The FDA closed them down becasue ONLY a homeopathoic remedy listed in the HPUS may be manufactured and called a "homeopathic remedy".
CellTech or anyone else may thus call what they make "homeopathic medicine", "Homeopathics", "homeopathic products" etc, just not "homeopathic remedy/remedies"

Namaste,
Irene

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Good information Irene. Thanks. I asked Carol to get pics of the box and send them to me. I'll send them to Dr. Shelton and let you know if that kind of information will be useful to him for the hearing and also if we should submit it to the FDA comments website. That one should be helpful.



Vicki