Sorry if this has already been posted but I though I'de bring it up since there has been a lot of discussion about Red Yeast Rice recently. Seems the FDA has put out a warning and started putting heat on distributers of RYR again late this summer.
This is the title of the FDA Article.
"FDA Warns Consumers to Avoid Red Yeast Rice Products Promoted on Internet as Treatments for High Cholesterol" (Products found to contain unauthorized drug)
I'm a little confused. I thought Lovastatin was naturaly occuring in RYR and the drug companies found a way to duplicate it syntheticly. It appears that the FDA has in the past required the supplement companies to remove the lovastatin from their RYR products and has recently sampled some products and found they contained Lovastatin. I wonder if the RYR products will be of any benifit by the time the FDA is through making them safe?
It is very safe to take RYR. I have been taking it the past three years and it has kept me from taking any prescription statins. My Doctor was the first one to put me on it as he believes to go the natural route before prescribing any medications. RYR is extremely safe and has been used in Chinese medicine for over 5,000 years. I greatly prefer to take RYR than taking any prescription statin.
The small amount of statin in RYR is of very low risk compared to prescription doses so The FDA is doing nothing to make this "safe", they are protecting the pharmacuetical companies revenue. The FDA, in case you haven't noticed, is not consumer oriented and in fact maybe an arm of one of the pharma companies. Remember, the money and time the FDA is using to monitor RYR could be better used to investigate Advanta, Vioxx, and other medical "advances" that actually kill people.
Arizona, Is the brand you use one of the companies that has been targeted by the FDA? If so I wonder if the product will continue to be effective once the FDA has their way. I find this action by the FDA a little bit disturbing. If I understand this correctly a drug company can identify a naturally occuring compound and develope a method to manufacture it, get FDA approval for it, and market it as a drug. Then the FDA can go back on the naturally occuring product and regulate it as a drug because it's active ingredient is a controled pharmaceutical. To me this thing smell bad.
So theoredically speaking, we could classify vitamin C as a drug regulated by the FDA. Then the FDA could mandate that oranges have vitamin c removed before they could be sold to consumers.
The small amount of statin in RYR is of very low risk compared to prescription doses so The FDA is doing nothing to make this "safe", they are protecting the pharmacuetical companies revenue. The FDA, in case you haven't noticed, is not consumer oriented and in fact maybe an arm of one of the pharma companies. Remember, the money and time the FDA is using to monitor RYR could be better used to investigate Advanta, Vioxx, and other medical "advances" that actually kill people.
Re: FDA and RYR
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