FDA
(Food & Drug Administration)
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FDA
FDA (Food & Drug Administration)?
Established: June 30, 1906
FDA is responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medical products more effective, safer, and more affordable and by helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medical products and foods to maintain and improve their health.
That paragraph was from:
FDA.gov.
From: TRADITIONAL MEDICINALS® packaging.
On the front side of the box with tea bags, it states:
Organic
Peppermint
Refreshing & Minty
SOOTHES THE BELLY*
On a side panel, this corresponding message for that (*):
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
According to: FDA.gov
In 2023, the FDA approved 55 drugs.
Some of them, such as, Orserdu; were submitted to the FDA on about June 2022 in order to get its expedited FDA Approval in 2023.
Since there have been relatively few new herbs added to the kitchen and first-aide since 1906, when the FDA was founded. A person must wonder why so few of them have been addressed by the FDA as medicines, in comparison to the pharmaceutical formulations, many of which use plant parts as their active ingredients.
Seems that every pharmaceutical that has a plant component as an active ingredient; that plant has already received the FDA approval and testing. The side affects from the whole-herb are generally non-existent.
Time to give Mother Nature a fair shake and see if the drug dealers can still make a killing.