Fear-Mongering? TV’s Dr. Oz Under Fire for Report About Arsenic in Apple Juice
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Madeleine Morgenstern
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(The Blaze/AP) Arsenic in apple juice! Fed to babies! And it probably came from China! Television’s Dr. Mehmet Oz is under fire from the FDA and others for sounding what they say is a false alarm about the dangers of apple juice.
Oz, one of TV’s most popular medical experts, said on his Fox show Wednesday that testing by a New Jersey lab had found what he suggested were troubling levels of arsenic in many brands of juice.
The Food and Drug Administration said its own tests show no such thing, even on one of the same juice batches Oz cited.
“There is no evidence of any public health risk from drinking these juices. And FDA has been testing them for years,” the agency said in a statement.
The flap escalated Thursday, when Oz’s former medical school classmate Dr. Richard Besser lambasted him on ABC’s “Good Morning America” show for what Besser called an “extremely irresponsible” report that was akin to “yelling `Fire!’ in a movie theater.”
Besser was acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before joining ABC news as health and medical editor several years ago.
Arsenic is naturally present in water, air, food and soil in two forms – organic and inorganic. According to the FDA, organic arsenic passes through the body quickly and is essentially harmless. Inorganic arsenic – the type found in pesticides – can be toxic and may pose a cancer risk if consumed at high levels or over a long period.
“The Dr. Oz Show” did not break down the type when it tested several dozen juice samples for total arsenic. As a result, the FDA said the results are misleading.
Furthermore, the agency’s own tests found far lower total arsenic levels from one of the same juice batches the Oz show tested – 2 to 6 parts per billion of arsenic versus the 36 that Oz’s show had claimed.
Tests of the same batch conducted by two different food testing labs for the juice’s maker, Nestle USA, which sells Juicy Juice under the Gerber brand, also found levels consistent with the FDA results.
In a letter published on the Oz show’s website, Nestle said it told the program‘s producer in advance that the method the show’s lab used was intended for testing waste water, not fruit juice, and “therefore their results would be unreliable at best.”
The FDA also sent a letter in advance to the show and threatened to post its findings and the letters online if the program proceeded.
Oz went ahead.
“American apple juice is made from apple concentrate, 60 percent of which is imported from China,” the website version of his report says. “Other countries may use pesticides that contain arsenic, a heavy metal known to cause cancer.”
The show tested three dozen samples from five brands, and Oz claimed that 10 had more arsenic than the limit allowed in drinking water – 10 parts per billion.
However, the FDA said the arsenic in water tends to be inorganic, justifying the strict limit. In contrast, organic arsenic is the form usually found in food and juices. Tests over the last 20 years show apple juice typically has fewer than 10 parts per billion total arsenic.
The mercurial Oz is a heart surgeon at Columbia University and heads an alternative medicine program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He was a regular on Oprah Winfrey’s show for many years before getting his own program two years ago.
This is the first week of a new TV season, the first in two decades without Winfrey dominating the talk show scene.
Tim Sullivan, a spokesman for Oz’s show, said in an interview: “We don’t think the show is irresponsible. We think the public has a right to know what’s in their foods.”
Sullivan said Oz does not agree that organic arsenic is as safe as authorities believe. The show will do further tests to distinguish organic from inorganic arsenic in juice samples, he said.
“The position of the show is that the total arsenic needs to be lower,” he said. “We did the tests. We stand by the results and we think the standards should be different.”
Fox News host Megyn Kelly devoted two segments of her show to the flap Thursday:
In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, even Oz said he wouldn’t hesitate to keep giving his four children apple juice.
“There’s no question in my mind folks can continue drinking apple juice. … There have been no cases at all of kids being harmed by elevated levels of arsenic, and the kinds of numbers we are talking about are not high enough to cause acute injury,” he said.
He said he was concerned instead about the possible ill effects from drinking apple juice for many years.
An independent lab agreed with the FDA’s contention that the form of arsenic matters.
Oz’s testing “certainly begs the question how much of that is inorganic,” the type of arsenic that is of prime concern, said Dr. Tod Cooperman, president of ConsumerLab.com. The company tests dietary supplements and publishes ratings for subscribers, much as Consumer Reports does with household goods.
However, Cooperman and others have long called on the FDA to strengthen regulation of contaminants.
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Comments (115)
Hickory
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:46pmOh my! Did you know that too much water is toxic?
Report Post »PJL
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:44pmSo how many kooky mothers will not let their kids have apple juice now?
Report Post »kindling
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:54pmThere is arsenic in all apples, it is in the seeds. It is so when an animal eats the apple it will pass through the animal faster and plant a new apple tree. If you gring the seeds with the rest of the apple you get some arsenic. I have never heard of anyone getting sick.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 8:31pmCalling B.S. on the FDA! Arsenic is an ELEMENT!!!! There is no “organic arsenic” which is different than “inorganic arsenic” and safe for human consumption. BULL!!! I don’t feel I should have to explain to you people what defines an element, but it is a simple construction of protons, neutrons and electrons which define it in total. There is no nuance to it. Arsenic=arsenic.
Also, apple seeds DO NOT contain arsenic, they contain a form of cyanide, a compound with many different forms; not an element!!!
Why oh why do I live in a world filled with foolish sheep who mock others based solely on “I heard it somewhere” or “XYZ government agency said so”???? The FDA is just covering the crimes of their Chinese masters. WAKE UP and BUY AMERICAN.
Report Post »tricia
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 9:20pmDr Oz has shed light on a problem. The FDA does not have the same standard or maybe NO standard for arsenic in juice. They do have standards for water but not the juice we drink WHY? Because they cannot control Chinese imports, thats why.
Report Post »Apple Seeds have no arsenic, the arsenic comes from the soil where it is grown.
Educate yourselves, get your own facts and read the LABELS
Don’t believe someone just because they are on TV
http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm271595.htm
Toucan
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 9:48pmMy wife tried to replace my skim milk with 2% milk because this Dr Oz dude said it was healthier… So, I bet there will be lots of households that will not have apple juice in their refrigerator…
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 10:18pmHere I thought Obama & Beck cornered the market of Fear Mongering.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 11:02pmapple juice is mostly sugar water with minimal nutritive value. Worse, it is made with fluoridated water.
Save your money and buy good OJ and serve water.
Watching tv does more damage then above mentioned chemicals.
Report Post »…beta waves..watch how it hypnotizes.
WeeDontNeedNoSteenkeenBadges
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 11:10pmAny man who comes “under fire” from ANY government agency is all right in my book!
FDA?
Isn’t that the very same agency that tried to prevent “natural milk” producers from putting on their cartons:
“Produced without antibiotics, synthetic growth hormones, or pesticides”?
AND when that failed, forced them to add this government approved “disclaimer”:
“no significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rBST-treated and non-rBST-treated cows”?
Search on-line, people! THEY … ARE … POISONING … YOU.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:31amI will not eat ANY food product labeled “China” … I have a friend who worked over there teaching English and she said if you saw what they put on the crops for “fertilizer” no one would eat any of it! If it isn’t U.S. grown I don’t buy it!
Check labels a lot of apple products come from China.
Report Post »Rancho
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:34amEveryone…do your own homework…it’s all on the internet for you to study…your body is incapable of getting rid of the multitude of chemicals like fluoride, arsenic, chlorine, aluminunum et al, that you ingest daily..these chemicals, independently at small doses, may not present a threat, but the synergy between them can be really harmful.. fluoride is a joke…read it’s history and you will see that the metal industry has been selling it and the concept that you need it….for years…
Eat as little meat as possible, buy a juicer, eat organic foods, learn to test your ph level, learn what’s in your food and stop eating crap…yes…their is arsenic in your food, in chicken feed and fluoride in your water…read The 100-year Lie – it will blow your mind.
Aside from the hormones & antibiotics in meat and dairy, eating it makes your body highly aciditic which weakens your immune system. Keep your PH at 7.2 and not in the 5′s and you will notice a difference in days….just lost my dad to cancer and the wife and I are uber concerned about what we eat and are now watching over our shoulders…the epa and fda are in no way capable of studying the countless chemicals being introduced into our food and cosmetics…
Do not take my word for it…just search the internet…learn about fluoride…it will shake you.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:37amI don’t trust the FDA one bit, but they are correct in this case. Most foods naturally contain a myriad of things that are toxic in sufficient quantity, including arsenic.
As for the arsenic=arsenic nonsense. Sorry you’re just blowing smoke.
This idiot is nothing but a scare monger. His show is nothing but a non stop stream of reports about things that are going to kill you. Nobody will watch a show about boring practical medical advice, so these shows invent scandals about hidden dangers and all sorts of things that are going to kill you. It’s an intentional strategy to get people scared and believing that this idiot (or the others like him on their shows) are the only ones that will expose these ghastly secrets. They‘re banking on the fact that you’re too stupid to be able to check into these things for yourself. Looks like they’re right in many cases from a lot of these responses.
Report Post »stacie01872
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:16amtrying to comprehend why we would need to import apples from china? Is there a shortage here in the u.s. of apple trees? Do chinese apples just taste better than american ones? things that make you go hmmmm……..
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:58amApple seeds contain trace amounts of arsenic. Big deal. They always have.
Report Post »Uriel
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 6:07amBonniBlueFlag, hello pot, kettle called and he want’s his black back.
There IS such a thing as organic arsenic. It means that the arsenic (element) is found in compounds containing carbon (allegedly making them easier for the body to absorb).
Inorganic arsenic is the label given to a compound containing arsenic (element) but NOT carbon.
A simple Google search would have revealed YOUR ignorance.
As to your question, “Why oh why do I live in a world filled with foolish sheep who mock others based solely on “I heard it somewhere”, I think the answer is that you’re a dolt.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:02am@kindling
I saw a report that said when you juice your own apples, keep the seeds in it. The little bit of arsenic in the seeds (hadn’t heard the organic vs inorganic before, but makes sense now) would help drive cancer out of the body.
Report Post »TRVTH
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:16am@Bonnie
You are right, but elements form into compounds and organic or inorganic compounds have different properties. Take two common elements Sodium and Chloride, sodium is explosive and dangerous in water, and chloride is a poison, but together they make salt an essential compound for life.
So arsenic formed into an organic compound is quickly passed through the body, hence safer.
Report Post »imhop
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 10:20am…or kooky mothers-in-law. We already got a call from my MIL telling us to stop giving our kid apple juice. How ridiculous.
Report Post »Flakingnapstich
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:58pmTo BonnieBlueFlag,
The terms “organic arsenic” and “inorganic arsenic” are not trying to describe two different kinds of the element arsenic. They are describing the other elements to which the arsenic atoms are bound. Arsenic is a highly reactive element and as a result you don’t find it in a pure form in nature.
Organic arsenic is arsenic bound to hydrogen and carbon. This is the kind that passes harmlessly through the human body. The stable carbon and hydrogen bonds keep the arsenic atoms securely locked into molecules that will not react with the rest of the body.
Inorganic arsenic is generally bound to atoms that are more volatile, such as chlorine, sulfur and oxygen. These molecules tend to break apart in the human body, allowing the arsenic to actually react.
The test Oz did failed to differentiate between these two kinds of arsenic containing molecule, making the results meaningless for evaluating the safety of the juice.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:42pmI trust Dr. Oz over the FDA and the government. Dr. Oz has his credibility to lose by giving false information to the public. What does the FDA have to lose? If people really read the labels of their food, they would see that many products that we think are American are not. Food from China has been proven time and time again to be unsafe. A study came out similar to this about 3 years ago, and there wasn’t this outrage then, but it was kept kinda hush and swept under the rug. Makes me wonder what the government is hiding.
Report Post »RationalJames
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 8:28pmAnd yet we’re still alive and well.
Report Post »mattfrompa
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 9:20pmstill alive with diabetes, cancer, and autism on the rise?
Report Post »RationalJames
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 9:56pmMy boyfriend is autistic. It’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:46amThe FDA doesn’t have anything to lose, but the people producing apple juice do. Anybody that thinks a company that makes it‘s money selling food to people wants to intentionally poison it’s customers is simply a moron. If they poison people, then people stop buying their product and they’re out of business.
Go talk to the people growing canteloupes in Colorado and see how happy they are that they’ve just killed at least five people with their product. Or maybe go talk to the people that run the Jack in the Box resturaunt chain that still haven‘t recovered from the food poisoning incident back in the ’70s that did nothing more than make a few people mildly ill.
Report Post »Flakingnapstich
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:59pmThe test Oz did failed to differentiate between the two kinds of arsenic containing molecule, making the results meaningless for evaluating the safety of the juice.
Report Post »RationalJames
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:40pmDr. Oz is a certified quack.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:57pmWhere as the FDA has a bunch of Quacks. I trust Dr. Oz before I would trust the FDA.
Report Post »RationalJames
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 8:27pm@Chips
Report Post »I laughed.
Deb C
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 8:52pmDitto Chips ! Dr Oz is one of the “good guys” One of the few lookin out for the folks !!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 8:59pmI agree that the FDA are incompetent and/or corrupt, and approve poisons for consumption almost daily.. I will trust OZ’s findings.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:33amI too trust Dr. Oz over ANY government entity .. heck I would trust Captain Kangaroo (for the older folks) over and government anything!
Report Post »jueta
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:37pmWhat is one thing they tell you to do before eating an apple? Peel it! Because that is where all the pesticides and what not are. You know they do not peel apples when making apple juice. I don’t think anything he said or did was inflammatory. He’s giving you information so you can make your own informed decision. China does not care about us. Let’s not forget that the FDA, EPA, FCC, and all others attached to the government blow which ever way the lobbyist $$ blows.
Report Post »MaxineH20Sux
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:32pmI noticed the apple juice my kids were drinking had apples from Argentina and China. It made me uncomfortable that they were drinking that. On the side of the plastic bottles, it is stamped in black print where the apples come from. Be sure to check it out before you buy it. Is there anything that doesn’t come from china???????
Report Post »FEMALL
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 9:55pmMusselman’s has a cooperative of American apple growers for their supply.
Report Post »christos
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:32pm…….I believe Dr. Oz many of the large companies import their ingrediant’s if you trust someone who has no moral conscious that,drowns baby girls in rice paddy’s,and forces abortions etc. a +GOD+ less country produce your food have second helpings,common sense would rest on Dr.Oz’s analysis.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 8:41pmI agree.
Report Post »Carol in MA
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:21pmI was told many years ago apple seeds have arsenic in them…it’s a natural thing. Before I juice apples I’ll always take the seeds out.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:28pmBPA ,vaccines = Agenda 21
Report Post »RationalJames
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:42pmApple seeds and their relatives (such as almonds) actually contain trace amounts of cyanide, not arsenic.
Report Post »suz
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:19pmi saw the part of this episode of oz pertaining to apple juice and he told the truth about arsenic levels therein from china, argentina…and, i think, brazil. then he told he audience to not wait for the government but act individually. he’s right!.
i love it when the as_es in the industry call TELLING THE TRUTH fearmongering.
…actually i don’t love it.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:09pmare they anything we eat or drink that s not killing us or causing cancers?
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:06pmI drink orange juice “not from concentrate”, I do not eat anything with partialy or hydrogenated oil. I learned a lot going throught hypnosis in 2004 for weight loss about what’s in what we eat. I was already doing some things-if I can’t pronounce it or do not know what the heck it is, I don’t eat it. When we were a poor Navy family I cooked from scratch, my kids were rarely sick. Today Autism, ADHD, etc is rampant. I really believe what we put in our mouth has an effect. I am not veggan or weird , I eat healthy, and eat some things (like cheese and butter and Milk) that I still worry about. If I could afford it, I would eat as organic as possible, but it isn’t neccesary to eat everthing organic. Some of it is a rip off. Dr. Oz is trying his best while not making us totaly crazy to get us to feel better, by eating better and getting us off our butts. If he says think about stuff, I think I will. I trust him more than the government.
Report Post »silversmithpress.com
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:04pmI write as a professional chemist to strongly disagree with Dr. Oz for the following reasons:1) This perpetuates the notion that we live in a pristine environment and it‘s only man’s use of chemicals that causes pollution. Water is a chemical, and it kills more people per year than any other chemical, drowning. There are a number of substances that when in any amount can cause death, but there are a number of ‘heavy metals’ that have useful catalytic properties in the body. Selenium for instance is necessary for a healthy immune system, but in sufficient quantities can be a poison. We live in an environment that is the cleanest, healthiest and safest in the history of civilization. Only in the incorrect view of living in a pristine environment only polluted by man, does Dr. Oz have a point. This sort of fear mongering has no place from men who purport to respresent medical science.
Report Post »2) This pushes an agenda that ignores economic reality. The cost of removing 100% arsenic would raise the cost of apple juice to the point that nobody would pay for it. This is the case for other ‘chemicals’ in the environment, as well. This goes to a larger point that has this country at the point of collapse from this level of thinking- that we can somehow live risk free. Sure remove pesticides and herbicides that contain arsenic, then you can decrease crop yields and the number of people that can be fed.
commonsenseguy
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:26pmyeah,you are correct, but your theory does not fit his and his left wing environuts. they must create a crisis to get their agenda of the ground, people will panic and they will stop buying these products, they the environut can have their communist buddies in the epa and fda force more needless restrictions on a already over restricted business, everything have some form of chemical dangers.
Report Post »bikedaddy
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:01pmOn the most recent Labor Day weekend, I happened to notice that the Juicy Juice my kids were drinking was clearly labeled “Made in China”. I pointed this out to the rest of the family, we were all quite shocked. Is it really cheaper for Nestle to import apple juice from China to sell to US kids? Quality control in China is questionable. Does anyone remember the dog food contamination from a couple of years back that was traced to China? I also seem to remember a story about contaminated milk with some type of plastic by-product that was said to boost protein content.
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:16pmwhen you only pay the worker $65.00 a month and no tarrifs very little if any regulation,yeah it a lot cheaper to import from china…
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:59pmWait! What is this mans connection to the WH? He is using his fame to open up a can of worms, why would he go there if there was not some truth to it. He has his own show, is it suffering in ratings? I hate to think this guy would go that route, but these days everybody is suspect except for me. Joking! But really! He has always shown to me to be on the level. What gives?
Report Post »dictionmary
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:27pmScare tactics. Back in the early 80′s the media created a panic with “Alar”, a chemical, in apple juice.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:36pmhe was made by opry { how ever you spell it, } just as dr.phil. he will do and say what he is told to keep his position. he is a puppet to opry and she is a big environut { but lives in a big mansion has big cars,airplanes } but that is beside the point, she can do what she wants as with the other elites ,while we have to follow the dictators rules, anyway, dr.oz is just the lefts medical mouth piece,he will soon be telling us that the new health care system will be the best in the world, even with limited services.
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:47am@dictionmary
Yes, and the alar scare turned out to be baseless! It put the orchard owners in a terrible bind. My theory is that the MSM was flexing its muscle during that time seeing just how far they could go with their disinformation.
Report Post »pollyanna
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:56pmTime to eat dirt, and lick the river. Period.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:55pmDr. Feelgood!!!! Anyone who was Oprahs best friend and confident Doctor must be suspect. Why else would the liberal media tear into him? But listening to how he did his due diligence, maybe we should have him investigate BHO affect on our overall mental and emotional health. Heck the kids will be fine, their gonna drug themselves up anyways with booze, smokes and hard drugs.
Report Post »Omnivore
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:54pmWe’ve been told, since I was kid in the 1960s, that we should be afraid, for a myriad of reasons, of our food, afraid of the air, afraid of the water we drink, et al. To a large degree it has been working, but this tactic, used to foment suspicion and hatred of capitalism is starting to unravel. I learned years ago not to listen to any of it.
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:06amOmnivore, thank you for your voice of reason and insight. Liberals thrive on crisis to get their strangulations ..oops! I mean ‘regulations’ enacted and what better scare venues than food, air and water.
As for Dr. Oz, I could see he was an alarmist from day one of his show. He blew everything he talked about waaaaay out of proportion. Sounded ridiculous! I found better thngs to do with my time than watch the stupid thing.
Report Post »1947
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:52pmHow do we get copies of the testing on Apple Juice from the FDA and Dr. Oz’s Lab. This could be very important since I NO longer by toys for my children from CHINA because of the problems in the paint used on toys.
Report Post »fcbs46
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:52pmOz is and always has been a radical Organic nut. He has shown on his show many things that are truly CRAP and the thoughtful person should avoid his CRAP show by all means.
Report Post »chickster
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:39pmI first heard of this problem with arsenic in apple juice 15 years ago. They slid it under the table back then. You also get arsenic from pressure treated lumber. It leaches into the ground. That’s why schools had their playground sets changed from wood to plastic.
Report Post »fcbs46
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:14pmFYI Treated wood now uses borax not arsenic. It only was used on the early forms of pressure treated woods any that now exist are illegal. Borax can cause rashes if you use with bare hands but you could eat the stuff and not die or even get very sick. I use it all the time in my wash it makes the colors pop. When we say something we should know, not use old wife’s tales for our information
Report Post »fcbs46
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:18pmPS the arsenic should have been only used on the buried portions and if it leaches at all it won’t have gone far because it actually (the type used) boils off in the atmosphere. The play ground equipment was probably replaced by a sharp fear mongering contractor.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:39pmi refuse to buy apple juice and apple sauce unless it is 100% American. we grow ample amounts of apples to satisfy our needs. musselmans is a brand i get for 100% grown in America apple products, china doesn’t care is they send tainted products here. they have done it in the past.
Report Post »Dug2Dark
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:33pmDr O, what were U thinking. It’s not the apple juice??????? It’s the kool-aid all those libs are drinking.
Report Post »tkrnstr
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:32pmWho to believe ? the FDA or a doctor who makes a living giving advice from his TV show ?
Report Post »GardenWeasel
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 9:18pmyou mean the FDA that has a former Monsanto lobbyist as Food Safety “Czar”? the FDA has had a revolving door for years and has been staffed with pharmaceutical and chemical industry executives. these industries don’t have to lobby the FDA, the FDA IS their lobby!! look up the history of the aspartame approval for an idea of the integrity of the FDA. oh, but they are protecting us from the dreaded scourge of herbal medicine. what a relief.
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:28pmLiberals are afraid of EVERYTHING!!!
Report Post »That is why they are so irrational on many issues.
Stuck_in_CA
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:34pmDr Oz has a great web site. Lots of useful information.
Here’s something a lot more pertinent:
Rick Perry And The HPV Vaccine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=31Irc8CHK0c
*Urgent Warning About Gardasil
*One More Girl
*Gardasil Victim Speaks Out After Two Years
*Gardasil – The Damage Is Done: From A Best Friend’s View
*HPV Vaccine Debate
Report Post »tkrnstr
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:39pmThis has nothing to with conservative or liberal… The food we eat is horrible. I’m not talking over eating. I’m not talking what people should or should not eat, i‘m talking about toxic foods people eat and they don’t even know it. I used to show signs of being very OCD (very OCD) and signs of aspergers (I was diagnosed with OCD and aspergers, but since have had my diagnosis changed) but having a doctor helped me with changing my diet along with taking pills that gave me certain things I lack in my body changed those signs of those problems. What works for some, doesn’t work for others though. Just making a point for those who don’t see the big picture. It is not black and white.
Report Post »Flakingnapstich
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:02pmFunny, I’m fairly liberal, at least on social issues and I know “Dr.” Oz is a fear mongering jackass whose claims about apple juice are a pile of bilge.
I find it odd that it‘s mostly extremists on both the left and right who are swallowing Oz’s claims. I guess the extreme left and the extreme right are a lot closer than they think, at least when it comes to falling for easily debunked garbage from fear mongers who only care about ratings and book sales.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 6:28pmOzzy’s first two albums were lots of fun when I was in junior high, but he kinda–uh, oh; it’s the other Oz. Nope, don‘t watch him and I don’t drink apple or orange juice. Loved the movie “Arsenic and Old Lace” though!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 7:00pmThis story forced me to go downstairs and look at the Tree Top juice I bought yesterday.
Report Post »It didn’t say China anywhere on it, but it did say Washington.
Now I’m even more worried.