
The Shady History Of Standard Process Laboratories
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> LOL..that presumes I'd waste my time reading any more of the {*filter*}on
> quackwatch than I already have. I spent too much of my life looking at
> their hysterical screeching and ranting.
Is any of it "hysterical screeching and ranting"? Let's
look at the first four paragraphs of the article.
Quoting from:
http://www.***.com/
Royal S. Lee (1895-1967), a nonpracticing dentist,
founded and operated the Vitamin Products Company,
which sold cooking.net">food supplements, and the Lee Foundation
for Nutritional Research, which distributed literature
on nutrition and health. The company, still family
owned and operated, is now called Standard Process,
Inc. and located in Palmyra, Wisconsin. Dun and
Bradstreet's Million Dollar Directory (2007 edition),
estimates the company's income to be $9.9 million,
but Standard & Poor's directory estimates $17 million.
The biographical sketch on the Standard Process Web
site describes Lee as a prolific inventor who
registered more than 70 patents on equipment,
processes, internal combustion engines, and cooking.net">food
products [1]. He founded Standard Process in 1929
and his foundation in 1941.
Lee's first product was Catalyn, a patent medicine
composed of milk sugar, wheat starch, wheat bran,
and other plant material. During the early 1930s,
a shipment of Catalyn was seized by the FDA and
destroyed by court order because it had been
marketed with false claims of effectiveness against
goiter, hardening of the arteries, heart trouble,
high {*filter*} pressure, insomnia, prostate trouble,
and other serious ailments.
In 1945, the FTC ordered Lee and the Vitamin
Products Company to discontinue illegal claims
for Catalyn and other products. In 1956, the Post
Office Department charged Lee's foundation with
fraudulent promotion of a book called Diet Prevents
Polio. The foundation agreed to discontinue the
challenged claims.
Does that sound like "hysterical screeching and
ranting"? And what about the references? Does
this article cite its sources of information?
Here's the bibliography for that article:
1. Our founderThe life of Dr. Lee. Standard
Process Web site, accessed April 20, 2006.
2. Barrett S. The shady activities of Kurt
Donsbach. Quackwatch, Feb 13, 2006.
3. FDA Notices of Judgment under the cooking.net">food Drug,
and Cosmetic Act, 1962, pp 138-140.
4. Smith RL. The amazing facts about a "crusade"
that can hurt your health. Today's Health,
Oct 1966, pp 31-36.
5. Milstead KL. Quackery in the medical device
field. Presentation at the Second National
Conference on Quackery, Chicago, Oct 25, 1963.
6. Wolfe SL. Testimony to the Subcommittee on
Health of the Committee on Labor and Public
Welfare, U.S. House of Representatives. Hearing
on cooking.net">food Supplement Regulation, Aug 22, 1974,
pp 894.
7. Barrett S, Herbert V. The Vitamin Pushers:
How the "Health Food" Industry Is Selling
America a Bill of Goods. Amherst, NY: Prometheus
Books, 1994, pp 292-293.
8. Barrett S. Contact reflex analysis.
Chirobase, April 16, 1998.
9. Nutritional program report for Patient
Xxx Xxx. Generated March 27, 2007.
10. The history of the Acoustic CardioGraph.
Acoustic CardioGraph Web site, accessed
March 27, 2007.
11. ACG - Nutritional cardiograph. drkaslow.com
Web site, accessed March 26, 2007.
12. ACG home page, accessed March 28, 2007.
I think any "hysterical screeching and ranting"
must be your own.