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Re: Piling questions on questions
koalamom, on host 4.43.246.168
Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 19:19:27
Piling questions on questions posted by 10Kan on Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 14:15:58:
> > > This brings up a far more controversial question.
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> > > Are meal pills (when they're invented, according to sci-fi) food?
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> > > If so... (here's the big question, folks)
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> > > Are vitamin tablets food?
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> > > Mattjew
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> > Yes, they are. Another name for a vitamin is
> > "nutritional supplement"...which = food.
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> Are medicines food if they are taken orally? Are 'recreational' drugs food if they are eaten?
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> 10"Flintstones kid"Kan
From the FDA website (now *there's* a fun read):
The FD&C [Food Drug & Cosmetic]Act defines drugs by their intended use, as "(A) articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease..and (B) articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals" [FD&C Act, sec. 201(g)(1)].
Which doesn't really cover recreational drugs, does it, since the intended use is not disease-related. So, medicine = non-food, recreational drugs = food?
--Nah.
koala"can't expect *too* much from a Government publication"mom
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