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Do not get Nathan Jones on Excelol, the active ingredient in its chewing, spraying nose, and other products. It will talk about your ear about its wonderful strength against dental decomposition, as well as its ability to fight Covid, heart disease, Alzheimer’s – name it whatever you want.

Currently, Jones, the founder of Xlear, cannot make these claims in his company’s ads. But if the lawsuit filed by his company against the Federal Trade Committee succeeds, he is likely to be able to say anything he wants.

Since the Trump administration reduces the enforcement of the Federal Trade Committee, the Ministry of Justice, and the FDA from uninterrupted health allegations, Jones and his allies in the “Medical Freedom” movement are pressing for the permanent decline in the health regulatory state.

For decades, FTC asked companies to support any medical claims about their products with great evidence, with measures against hundreds of “fake health treatments,” said Jessica Rich, director of consumer protection at the Federal Trade Committee from 2013 to 2017.

“It will be a complete change of games,” said Marie Angel, assistant director of the FTC Advertising Practices Department from 2001 to 2020.

FTC – and FDA – do not strictly have the police health demands, but the health allies of health and humanitarian services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior in the world of alternative medicine suggested that agencies be already far away.

“The pharmaceutical industry has a monopoly in America,” Jones told KFF Health News. “The consumer must have an option to what they do and how they are proactive and interacting in his health care.”

Jones and other members in Alliance for Natural Health, USAWhich includes alternative medicine practitioners, vaccine skepticism, and supporters of “natural” treatments, they were joyful when Kennedy became the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services in February. One called It is “once a lifetime”.

Kennedy had briefly warned of Trump’s re -election that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would face an account for its “aggressive repression” of vitamins, peptides, nutrients, and other products that made supplements that have requested more freedom to submit claims about their products.

Loss of organizational bite?

For decades, the Food and Drug Administration has power that reminds dangerous products and verification 70 billion dollars in supplements industry.

FTC traditionally had more teeth, as it successfully vetoed companies that make baseless claims. For example, the agency Win Last year against a company that announced an “clinical” extension to improve memory.

FTC under Trump has not announced any new enforcement procedures against supplements (I sent consumers Previous revenues Fraud settlementsThe administration has reflected many FTC procedures related to Covid. In March, FTC fell a lawsuit filed in 2021 against Jones and Xlear for marketing “drug -free” sinus rinsing as preventive and treatment. The Ministry of Justice has also closed a case that was brought on behalf of FTC and FDA against a company that has claimed that its ground tea could treat Covid.

In June, Jones, who says he spent $ 3 million fighting the FTC suit before being dropped, and sued. The company asked the judge to prevent FTC from asking the health products marketers to restore their claims for convincing evidence, such as clinical trials – a position that kept FTC Since 1984.

XLAR hopes that the case will be considered under the Supreme Court ruling last year known as the name BrightLawyer xLar Rob Hosman said. This ruling gave the courts More power to the second guess Interpretation of federal agencies of laws that govern their activities.

The coalition for natural health joined Xlear In a separate petition In May, FTC calls for registration of companies’ requirements to provide great evidence to support health claims, and withdraw the 2022 instructions that generally require companies to manage a random clinical trial to prove their claims.

The petition was presented by Jonathan Emour, the lawyer who succeeded in organizing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and FTC for nutritional supplements and passed to no avail to Virginia’s ruler as a Republican in the preliminary elections for the year 2024.

Emord sits to the heart of the burden of proof. Instead of asking for nutritional supplements, cosmetic creams, grains, sprays, and herbs to prove that their products do what they claim to do, the government will have to prove that they do not do so.

“If one of the advertisers throws caution on the wind and submits a health -related products without resorting to any supportive evidence, the FTC is powerless,” Emeer wrote in the petition. “Instead, the claim will be tested in the ideas and information market free from government restrictions.”

Emord and the alliance for the natural health of the repeated requests did not respond.

A spokeswoman for Juliana Greenwald Henderson said that FTC will not comment on the lawsuit, petition, or the issue of evidence in general.

Abbreviation and most hands

Meanwhile, with the Kennedy management with supporters of unconventional health products, “there was a decline in enforcement,” said Housman.

Since Trump took office, FTC has lost at least a quarter of the employees in the Advertising Practices Department, which took the original action against Xlear, said Serena Vesanathan, who retired from the position of assistant director of the Federal Trade Committee in June. The Ministry of Justice reorganized its consumer protection unit, which supported FTC in many measures, and transferred some of its lawyers to immigration and other areas.

In one of the only measures it took against deceptive health practices during the Trump era, FTC hosted a July 9 workshop entitled “Risks of” Care of the Sex “for minors.

In the Chair of the Board of Directors of FTC Andrew Ferguson’s opening statement In this event, he raised the Biden administration to allow hormonal and surgical treatments for young people with dysphagia.

But Ferguson justified the new FTC attack on these treatments by referring to the agency’s traditional practice of companies to take wrong and deceptive claims. Noting the procedures of the agency against “sellers of snake oil” that promote fake treatments, Ferguson highlighted the FTC position during the Biden era that “health claims need to be supported through reliable scientific evidence” and “a high level of scientific evidence.” “

Under this logic, “Ferguson must defend the fifth lawsuit,” Rich said.

She said: “If anyone can cry out of health products without any basis, and customers spend money on false treatments instead of asking for appropriate care, this is a really serious problem.”

“Or not?

Ferguson’s comments reflect one of the many contradictions in the administration’s approach to health policy. While preferring to cancel the organizational restrictions and the greatest personal freedom to consume unorganized nutritional supplements, Kennedy also pushed the FDA more strict food and drug supervision, with the call for the behavioral change that the Republican Party officials have mocked as a “nanny state” when Democrats are like the former first lady like the former first lady Michelle Obama has strengthened this.

Kennedy, for example, said he wanted More random control experiences As for vaccines and drugs – there is a condition rejected by preachers of medical freedom such as Jones.

“I love clinical data; I think it’s great,” said Housman. “It is not everything and the end.”

Kennedy It has also announced plans To change a policy that allows food companies to add ingredients without a full safety review. But many supplement makers use policy to obtain their market products without reviewing FDA, and Some are not happy About potential clampdown.

Banking services on Xylitol

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to Xylitol as a food additive in 1963 and organizes it as a cosmetic component. Jones, who said his company has about 110 employees and sold to 70,000 retailers, founded Xlear 25 years ago.

Hosman said Jones express doubts about vaccines, and believes that the drug industry has a monopoly on health care, and she is a “real believer” in Excelol.

In an interview with the KFF Health News, Jones said that a slightly flavoring sweet material reduces gingivitis by preventing adhesion to the rotation of the teeth Streptococcus Mutans Bacteria for cells in the mouth.

In Finland, where the water is not explained, dentists have long recommended that the chewing Xylitol to chew for children. In addition to combating cavities and lowering gum disease, Jones said, Excelol can fight chronic diseases such as obesity, Alzheimer’s and heart disease, which “has a relationship with oral hygiene.”

But “the government prevents us from going out and talking about what Xylitol does.” “We cannot say that Xylitol can help prevent teeth decomposition, because Xylitol is not a drug, and this is a drug.

As for its use against Kovid, three specialists in the ear, nose and throat that KFF Health News met that Xylitol is useful for moisturizing nose cavities, and perhaps a little better than simple saline solutions. Although there is no evidence that it prevents or heals Covid, but Xylitol, such as salty nose washing, may reduce symptoms when used to start any infection in the viral upper respiratory system, said Franziz, a professor of vascular science in vascular science at Missouri University, drawing, trip, and trip.

Excelsol toxic dogs, but it is considered safe for humans when used in the recommended doses in the sprays, sweets, gums, and other products, according to The American Academy of Dentistry of ChildrenAnd, which also states that the evidence is mixed with whether Xylitol is actively fighting cavities.

At upper doses, Xylitol can cause diarrhea and other digestive problems, and study The National Institutes of Health found and published last year that the regular use of agents as a sweetener can exacerbate heart disease. However, the quantities of Xylitol consumed by the participants in that study were much higher than what is in a few sticks of chewing gum.

Whether or not, Jones may expect the future of pink business.

On May 21, he and the pediatrician Mark Cannon of North Westren University were called to testify in the Legislative Council in Utah to support a pilot project to provide Xlear Gum to students and prisoners in the state as an alternative to filfed water, which the state has seen in March.

Florida has ordered fluoride from the waters of the state from July 1, and Other countries are studying the ban. Kennedy wants to end the country’s floor, although it is widely suspicious of his belief that he allows the brain at the levels of common doses.

Jones said the ban is a blessing to XLAR. He said that the company will provide the Gums to the Utah Punishment at the cost, but if governments promote it and people learn more, “this is where we see we are able to grow.”