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<\/a><\/p>\n(Natural News<\/a>) For years, we\u2019ve warned that Big Pharma\u2019s business model is a \u201crepeat business\u201d racket that profits from sickness and disease. We also know that cancer is a multi-billion-dollar industry that generates huge profits from the repeat business of cancer \u201ctherapies\u201d such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Now comes news that a popular blood pressure drug sold by Novartis has been found to be laced with a cancer-causing chemical known as \u201cdimethylformamide.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA pharmacy warned the Food and Drug Administration that it found a chemical believed to cause cancer in a widely used blood pressure medication, according to a filing from the federal agency,\u201d\u00a0reports CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n The drugs are part of a popular class of prescription medications the FDA has been quietly recalling after finding them to be laced with cancer-causing chemicals. Those drugs reportedly include valsartan, losartan and irbesartan.<\/p>\n Even more astonishingly, this chemical contamination was discovered by\u00a0Valisure<\/a>, an online pharmacy that operates across America. Valisure is apparently running contamination tests on the various medications it sells, and it found that valsartan, the blood pressure medication manufactured by Novartis, contains DMF (dimethylformamide), a chemical known to cause cancer.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what else is fascinating: Valisure is to pharmaceuticals what\u00a0the Health Ranger Store<\/a>\u00a0is to nutritional supplements and superfoods. Both organizations run in-house laboratories that use mass-spec analysis to ensure the clean nature of the products being sold. Valisure says about itself, \u201cWe\u2019re the only pharmacy that chemically tests every batch of every medication we sell, at no additional cost.\u201d This is exactly what we do for superfoods at HealthRangerStore.com, too. In fact, Valisure\u2019s lab and our lab use the same instrumentation. In our case, we use ICP-MS for heavy metals tests and HPLC-MS-MS for glyphosate, AMPA, atrazine and pesticide tests. Valisure is using GC-MS, which is a gas chromatography version of mass spec analysis.<\/p>\n Both Valisure at our own in-house lab (CWC Labs) are ISO-17025 accredited laboratories. This is why when Valisure issues this announcement about a cancer-causing chemical in blood pressure medications,\u00a0it gets my attention<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In a\u00a0March 15 press release<\/a>, Valisure described how it\u2019s testing medications for cancer-causing chemicals:<\/p>\n Valisure, the first online Analytical Pharmacy, announced it has expanded its testing capabilities to screen samples from all batches of medications it dispenses for the cancer causing contaminants N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), N-Nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA), and N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF), the chemical solvent that has been implicated in the production of these impurities.<\/em><\/p>\n Valisure has filed documents with the FDA, requesting the agency recall the contaminated drugs. Yet right at this moment, pharmacies all across America are dispensing these drugs to patients whose doctors have told them they have a \u201cblood pressure problem\u201d that requires \u201ctreatment.\u201d<\/p>\n Is it any surprise that once you start taking prescription medications for one condition, you quickly develop another condition that also requires treatment? In this case, blood pressure drugs cause cancer. Many diabetes drugs cause liver disease, and cancer drugs promote more cancer tumors. Statin drugs cause metabolic disorders, hormone drugs cause cancer, and osteoporosis drugs actually cause skeletal disorders. In fact,\u00a0repeat business<\/strong>\u00a0is the entire business model of the pharma cartels: Not only do their drugs almost never solve the underlying condition they claim to \u201ctreat,\u201d they actually cause your body to develop entirely new health problems that require additional (high-profit) prescription medications.<\/p>\n This is how people end up on a dozen prescription drugs while getting worse every day with metabolic disorders, heart conditions, cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s and fatigue. The drugs are destroying their health, but\u00a0that\u2019s the business model<\/strong>\u00a0because it brings people back to their doctors to ask for more drugs. Amazingly, we now have a drug-selling pharmacy that\u2019s demanding a high level of safety for drug consumers. As CNBC reports:<\/p>\n Valisure asked that the medication be recalled and requested that the FDA review and significantly lower the acceptable intake of DMF from its current level of 8,800,000 nanograms to less than 1,000 nanograms. The online pharmacy said it found the cancer-causing chemical in valsartan produced by five companies.<\/em><\/p>\n Yes, that\u2019s five companies. The the FDA\u2019s current \u201callowable\u201d exposure to this cancer-causing chemical is 8,800 times higher than what this pharmacy thinks is appropriate. That is not a trivial difference. I\u2019ll bet most people taking these drugs had no idea the FDA openly allows 8,800 times higher concentrations of cancer-causing chemicals than what might be safe.<\/p>\n To protect the lucrative prescription drug market, FDA spokesperson Jeremy Kahn said, \u201cPatients should continue to take their blood pressure medication even if it is recalled until their doctor provides a replacement or alternative treatment\u2026 Abruptly discontinuing a medication is risky.\u201d<\/p>\n But\u00a0taking<\/em>\u00a0a cancer-causing chemical seems risky, too, and why isn\u2019t the FDA testing drugs for contaminants anyway? For the exact same reason that the Health Ranger Store has taken on the job of the FDA when it comes to food safety testing, Valisure is doing the FDA\u2019s job in the realm of medications. We should all find this astonishing. Why has it come down to private companies doing the job the FDA is supposed to be doing?<\/p>\n Novartis doesn\u2019t even deny the fact that the chemical is present in its products, by the way. Via CNBC:<\/p>\n In a statement to CNBC, a spokesperson for Novartis said in general the company\u2019s manufacturing process does not use DMF but it cannot currently fully \u201cexclude the possibility that traces of DMF (within applicable limits) may have been present in materials of other Drug Substances suppliers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n What Novartis means by \u201cDrug Substances suppliers\u201d is chemical supply companies in China and India, which is where most pharmaceutical raw materials come from. (Coincidentally, it\u2019s also where most synthetic vitamin chemicals come from, which is why consuming synthetic vitamins is just as toxic as taking synthetic medications.)<\/p>\n With a few rare exceptions, China\u2019s quality control systems are practically non-existent. This is a country where infant formula suppliers substituted melamine powder for milk powder, effectively murdering thousands of innocent babies by destroying their kidneys. China executed the CEO of that company, but only because the fiasco was too loud and made international headlines. Behind the curtain, thousands of small chemical suppliers provide synthetic molecules to the pharmaceutical industry, and quality control is so horrible on anything coming out of China that the entire country has a reputation among pharmaceutical and food manufacturers as producing the most contaminated, polluted bulk materials in the world. In fact, even organic certifiers don\u2019t trust China, and many believe that \u201corganic\u201d from China is a total fraud.<\/p>\n Contaminants are widespread in bulk materials from China and India alike, which is why we have found very few raw materials from China that can be considered safe or clean. What makes the situation even worse is that\u00a0pharma companies only check the bulk material for the target molecule they think they purchased<\/strong>, typically using GC-MS or LC-MS. If your target molecule has a mass of, say, 186, then you run the sample and look for 186. If it\u2019s present, the material usually passes. The problem with this approach is that\u00a0the bulk material may be contaminated with unknown chemicals<\/strong>, and if you don\u2019t know in advance to scan for those chemicals in your mass spec system, you will have no idea they are present.<\/p>\n Mass spec instruments have to be set up in advance to detect each specific chemical, and this requires running the instruments against chemical standards while optimizing ion fragmentation, ionization, flow rates and other factors. As an apt example, on my newest LC-MS-MS instrument, I\u2019m currently scanning food samples for both glyphosate and AMPA (a breakdown molecule of glyphosate). In order to detect these two chemicals, I have to set the instrument to scan for two parent masses (168 for glyphosate and 110 for AMPA) in negative mode, plus two ion fragment transitions \/ daughter ions for each. The glyphosate daughter ions, for example, are 63 and 80. If you don\u2019t have all this information \u2014 and the proper chemical column for your GC or LC system \u2014 you won\u2019t be able to see the contaminant chemical at all, especially when it\u2019s only present in concentrations of nanograms per ml (the same as parts per billion).<\/p>\n Thus, pharma companies are running bulk materials all day long\u00a0without seeing the chemical contaminants<\/strong>\u00a0because they aren\u2019t looking for them. (A \u201cdon\u2019t ask \/ don\u2019t tell\u201d approach to \u201cmedical science.\u201d) It\u2019s only in the rare instances when an independent company like Valisure makes a point to look for specific chemicals that the real truth becomes known.<\/p>\n You might think it would be impossible for a company like Novartis to fail to conduct the necessary tests to clear their products of cancer-causing chemicals. Surely Novartis has mass spec instruments in their own quality control lab, right?<\/p>\n Of course they do. And it is very difficult to imagine Novartis accidentally letting this chemical slip through their screening effort. So it raises the obvious question: Do Big Pharma companies deliberately lace their prescription medications with cancer-causing chemicals in order to increase repeat business?<\/p>\n The very question will be derided as a conspiracy theory, but what if it\u2019s just their business model? Big Tobacco used addiction to hook people on their products in order to generate repeat business. Ironically, the tobacco companies also purchased full-page ads in the Journal of the American Medical Association, touting how \u201cDoctors recommend Camels more than any other cigarette.\u201d Is it really much of a stretch to think that pharmaceutical corporations might do almost anything to boost their profits at the expensive of their own customers\u2019 long-term health?<\/p>\n Remember: Healthy people don\u2019t use pharmaceuticals. Repeat business in the pharma industry depends on\u00a0keeping people sick<\/strong>. Can you think of a better way to accomplish that than lacing your product with chemicals that promote sickness? What is drug companies have been lacing their products with disease-promoting contaminants for years?<\/p>\n If blood pressure medications made by Novartis and approved by the FDA are laced with cancer-causing chemicals, what other toxic chemicals might be lurking in other pharmaceuticals that are also approved by the FDA?<\/p>\n Truth be told, even though I don\u2019t take any medications at all, if I did, I would buy through\u00a0Valisure.com<\/a>\u00a0just because I know they\u2019re testing for contaminants. This is the first pharmacy I actually applaud for their efforts to use good science to confirm clean products. (A \u201cclean\u201d pharmaceutical doesn\u2019t necessary mean it\u2019s 100% safe, of course, since the drug itself can be quite toxic depending on what it is.)<\/p>\n If you\u2019d rather avoid being sick and pursue health and longevity instead, get your superfoods, food-based supplements, essential oils, organic storable foods and ultra-clean home living products through\u00a0HealthRangerStore.com<\/a>, where we test everything we sell at no additional cost to you. In fact, we use the same instruments as pharmacies and pharma companies. We just use them for a higher purpose.<\/p>\n Sources for this story include:<\/strong><\/p>\nA pharmacy that tests the products for contaminants before retailing them\u2026 shouldn\u2019t the FDA be doing this?<\/h2>\n
If you take prescription medications, you might be giving yourself cancer right now<\/h2>\n
Dirty, filthy raw materials from India and China \u2014 this is what\u2019s in your high-priced medications<\/h2>\n
Is Big Pharma intentionally lacing blood pressure medications with cancer chemicals?<\/h2>\n