"FDA warned consumers not to consume or use Miracle Mineral Solution, an oral liquid solution also known as "Miracle Mineral Supplement" or "MMS." The product, when used as directed, produces an industrial bleach that can cause serious harm to health.
The product instructs consumers to mix the 28 percent sodium chlorite solution with an acid such as citrus juice. This mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment."
"High oral doses of this bleach, such as those recommended in the labeling, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration."
If anyone is suspicious of the FDA's "motives," there were many more FDA warnings for things like prescription drugs, vaccines(!), OTC's from drugstores, etc. It looked pretty equal opportunity to me.
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I still don't trust the FDA when it comes to anything.
Never tried MMS and don't care to, but still think the FDA needs to get out.
If they didn't spread misinformation, and did good things when it comes to the food supply, perhaps my view would be different.
It's more about money than safety in my opinion. Dangerous organization.
But if the FDA was abolished, people would lose their false sense of security and freak. I'm sure there are people here that think I'm nuts. I actually think the FDA is even more nutty than myself.
And if the FDA is gone, I think there would be private, more honest organizations/companies to replace them. I don't think they can find their way out of corruption at this point.
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Thanks for posting this-I've always had doubts about it's safety.
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nenet
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One doesn't need to trust the FDA - an individual can look up the chemistry they are referencing to learn if it is legitimate.
Google Books has plenty of chemistry texts available for browsing as well.
I think their claim can be substantiated pretty easily, so it would not be in their best interest for them to make a bold-faced, easily investigated, claim like that.
Not only that, but the makers of the product could sue the FDA for lying about their product.
I have plenty of distrust for this organization as a whole for NOT regulating or responding appropriately to very dangerous products (like Monsanto's products), but that doesn't mean that they can't ever get anything right.
Just one example - if it weren't for them, we would have absolutely NO oversight of our food safety, and food contaminants would be running rampant.
Private corporations already have no incentive to use safer methods. Increased safety is too expensive, and they can just bully impacted consumers with their big legal teams, or settle for pennies out of court with any of the "little people" that might miraculously have the money to hire a lawyer to sue.
And they are growing more and more powerful every day, lobbying *against* having to use safer methods. Can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The pitfalls of the FDA are another huge issue though - this warning can be researched and verified without their help.
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The way they operate I don't trust them.. Anyone could make this study and they have to act...
But it is good to know if suspect in those taking it...
My verdict is still out and I don't even use it.
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I have read that MMS is chlorine and unsafe to use.
I believe people will market anything to make a few bucks off of sick desperate people willing to try anything.
It is sad.
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Never trust the FDA. They don't want you to help yourself.o have had two docs....one an llmd....,tell me the like it and often try patients out on it. It is proven effective against acute malaria ......google Jim humble.
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I use MMS for Crohn's disease and it is at least as safe as many OTC medications.
It brought me straight out of an intestinal flare when nothing else would. You will notice there is no report of anyone harmed by the product, but they infer that it would, if it is used. Since thousands of people have used it for the past three years, you would think there would be a death or two from it.
Chlorine is in your city water,and many drugs but not in MMS. It is Chlorine Dioxide which is a different chemical entirely.
I am not encouraging anyone to use it, that is a personal decision, but the FDA also kicks down the doors of places selling raw milk. I do not think your average Amish farmer is a threat to anyone.
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