(I just published The Ultimate Guide to Colloidal Silver, Colloidal Silver Generators, and Jello last night. It is so gigantic that the system could not handle properly sending it out to many subscribers, so if you did not receive it, please check it out. )

There are certainly people who are trying hard to eliminate colloidal silver from the market. Here are a few stories for your amusement. I am certain that many more can be found:

• In Europe, it is already illegal to market colloidal silver as a dietary supplement.
• There are reports of harassment by the FDA involving people who simply sell 9-volt batteries or silver wire (components that could potentially be used to make colloidal silver at home). Are these items that are unsafe? And since when are they classified as either food or drugs?
• The story of the owner of Utopia Silver Supplements (Ben Taylor) is very intriguing. The following is an excerpt from an interview with Ben:

  “Ben: I’m not naïve enough to think that they have forgotten all about me; they could come after me tomorrow with a SWAT team. And one point they did come out with armed state troopers.

  Kira: They did? How do you defend yourself against that?

  Ben: What they did was send out a TDH (Texas Department of Health) inspector and an investigator, and two armed state troopers. They demanded that I turn over all of my vendor and customer records. The investigator showed me what he called a warrant which I read it and then demanded to see the affidavit (which was not attached as referenced in the warrant) which is required to get a judge’s signature. The TDH investigator got very aggressive and forceful with me and threatened to arrest me if I didn’t start getting the records together for him to take. He told me if I wanted to see any affidavits, I could go to Austin (the State capital) and see them. So what I did was get on the phone and called a retired lawyer and now rancher friend. He told me to immediately call the Sheriff, which I started doing. Well, when I started calling the sheriff, the two state troopers and the TDH officers hightailed it out of my business like jackrabbits in a brush fire.

  …

  Kira: So what do you think is the purpose of all this? Was it to stop you from publishing your testimonials or was it to have you give up your company?

  Ben: I believe they wanted to shut the company down because the attorney general told me in one of the meetings with the judge that this was a test case for the country. He had previously told another of the ‘defendants’ that their intent was to shut down Utopia Silver.”

  Was this even a legal operation? And a test case for the entire country!? Who put these people up to this?

• JelloMedicine discusses the potential regulation of colloidal silver by the EPA:

  “Many readers are no doubt flabbergasted by the following irony: While the FDA has attempted to discredit silver as being completely ineffective, the EPA is considering regulation due to the position that silver is far too effective. Well, which is it?

  In May of 2008 the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of a coalition of public interest organizations. The petition calls for the EPA to regulate nano-silver products as pesticides. The legal petition requests that the EPA assess the safety of these materials to the public and the environment before permitting them to be marketed.”

  A good way to wipe out all colloidal silver retailers at once?

• There is no evidence that silver nanoparticles are harmful to the environment. And this is really an insult as long as the BP oil spill is being treated so lightly. Colloidal scientist George Maass writes the following:

  “The second question concerns the effect of silver nanoparticles on the environment. Anyone who has tried to make nano particles knows that nanoparticles do not remain “nanosize” for very long when they come in contact with normal environmental samples, such as soil and water, but they agglomerate to form much larger, much less biologically effective, silver particles which are non-toxic, non-ionic and have no history of being harmful to the environment or aquatic life. Even the researchers who are questioning the harmfulness agree that the larger particles are simply harmless silver metal.

  For example, in my paper, Nanoparticles – No Threat to the Environment it was shown that an 80% reduction in surface area, and therefore high reduction in biological activity, can take place in just minutes. Furthermore, the zeta potential was in the wrong region to support colloidal stability.

  These facts were submitted as a paper to “Environmental Science and Technology”. This journal, which is already publishing counter opinions, dismissed the paper in record time without contacting any of the referees whose names were suggested for the paper. It is clear the this journal is not interested in getting at the truth, but in supporting the positions of big Pharma, whose financial interests are in jeopardy because of the growing trend toward natural [censored word], such as colloidal silver.”

  In his paper, he writes:

  “On the other hand, it is not surprising that certain research institutions are being encouraged, and perhaps even funded, to conduct research that implies toxicity for colloidal silver.”

  Research funded to prove that silver nanoparticle are dangerous to the environment? When there is no evidence of it? When in fact the evidence shows just the opposite? And such research being ignored?

• In this story, the FDA and the FTC combined forces to send a warning to an organization that doesn’t sell any products? A result of incompetence or of targeted suppression of information?:

  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
  BUREAU OF CONSUMER PROTECTION
  WASHINGTON, D.C. 20580

  VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL

  RE: NOTICE OF POTENTIAL ILLEGAL MARKETING OF PRODUCTS OR THERAPIES TO PREVENT, TREAT, OR CURE ANTHRAX, SMALLPOX, OR OTHER DISEASES OR HEALTH HAZARDS: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED

  DATE: November 20, 2001

  Your Web Site claims that a product or therapy you sell is effective in the treatment or cure of anthrax, smallpox, or another disease or health hazard that may be associated with recent reports about threats of terrorism. We are aware of no scientific basis for such claims. Without competent and reliable scientific evidence to substantiate these claims, the claims are illegal under the Federal Trade Commission Act and must be discontinued immediately. Violations of the FTC Act may result in legal action in the form of Federal District Court Injunction or Administrative Order. An order also may require that you pay money back to consumers.

  In addition, if you are marketing a dietary supplement, be aware that FDA prohibits any labeling claims that a dietary supplement is intended to prevent, mitigate, treat, or cure anthrax, smallpox, or any other disease under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as amended by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. Such claims would require that the product be submitted for FDA approval as a new drug. Also, representatives of the dietary supplement industry have issued a joint news release stating that dietary supplements should not be promoted as a remedy or cure for anthrax and that no dietary supplements have been proven to treat or prevent anthrax. The joint statement of the American Herbal Products Association, Consumer Healthcare Products Association, Council for Responsible Nutrition, National Nutritional Foods Association, and Utah Natural Products Alliance is attached.

  FTC investigators have copied and preserved the pages of your online promotional materials and will be revisiting your Web site soon. If your Web site includes any express of implied claim about the benefit of any product or therapy for anthrax, smallpox, or other disease that is not substantiated by competent and reliable scientific evidence, or is otherwise deceptive or fraudulent, you must discontinue these claims immediately.”

• Ebay claims to have been told by the FDA that colloidal silver is proven to be unsafe. If true, this is an outright lie, as the FDA only has the right to say the colloidal silver has not been proven to be safe. As a result of this, Ebay has given into pressure to ban all sales of colloidal silver from their site:

  Dear [ name removed ],
  eBay appreciates the fact that you chose to list your auction(s):

  [ auction number removed ] Colloidal Silver with us. However, it has been brought to our attention that the FDA has found colloidal silver products to be unsafe…Based on this information, eBay has determined that the sale of items containing colloidal silver will no longer be allowed on our site. Therefore, these auctions have been ended and all associated fees have been refunded to your account.

  Questionable tactics for removing colloidal silver from the market?

• The Pharmaceutical industry engages in outright deception to convince people that colloidal silver will cause them argyria. Silver-colloids comments:

  “The Blue Man story became a major media disinformation event which was produced by a public relations firm and paid for by a pharmaceutical interest. The purpose of this campaign was to scare the public away from using colloidal silver products. The tactic was to claim that the Blue Man’s condition was caused by his use of colloidal silver thus implying that anyone who uses colloidal silver would suffer a similar fate. The entire story as presented is a study in fraudulent misrepresentation…I really don’t think I could have come up with a better protocol to turn blue.”

  This intentional disinformation is just ridiculous when you analyze carefully the safety profile of colloidal silver. I have spent roughly 20 pages in my book establishing the safety of the most important class of colloidal silver products.

What is going on here?

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