extropians@HarveyNewstrom.com wrote:
>
> Michael S. Lorrey wrote,
> > Ah, but tobacco is not a food product, nor, supposedly, a drug
> > product, ergo, the *Food* and *Drug* Administration has no
> > jurisdiction there.
>
> I cannot think of any definition of food and drug that excludes nicotine
> from both categories. If I thought all foods and drugs should be regulated
> by the FDA, I would have to include nicotine and tobacco among them.
Nah, thats why herbs are not under FDA control, because they provide no
nutritional value to a human diet, and have no significant scientifically
recognised medicinal value either. Does nicotine have any nutritional or
medicinal value? If not, then its not regulatable by the FDA.
>
> > The EPA really has no right to impede its product approval process,
> I am not familiar with the EPA's involvement in this case. What are they
> doing?
Its they who have jurisdiction over the whole Bt/milkweed/monarch butterfly
issue.
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