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Can you point to that story? I know some got caught putting "cures cancer" on the label and that is a big no-no.



Yes that was the one. He had a client cliaming she got cancer free.

http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-23-amish-farmer-facing-68...


Yeah, that's a whole different thing. The FDA is a bit nasty to anyone claiming any health benefit without a study. Ask the cereal companies, they got sued quite a lot. Soylent and others just have to put labels on the food and that can be done without some prior approval.

The killer FDA rule that is going to impact a lot of people goes effective for enforcement on May 5.


Yeah, that's not selling honey, that's selling a beeswax balm and claiming it cures cancer. I'm willing to believe he was a well-intentioned idiot and not a deliberate scammer like Trudeau, but well intentioned idiots kill a lot of people.

Honey itself is basically unregulated - you can more-or-less dump unfiltered honey into bottles in your garage and sell it.




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