Re: [RC] claming agents that won't test positive, know any? - Truman Prevatt
I have a friend who is a pharmacologist and biochemist. We were out one
day riding along this dirt road and our horses start chowing down on
this "weed" along the side of the road and I noted that they love this
stuff. She said it looked like X (don't remember what X was) and it was
a natural source of something or another and it was good for them.
While this weed grows like crazy around me you can't find it in the
pasture - it all gets eaten. The same is true for hairy indigo. They
love it and there is not any in my pasture but it is a pain to keep out
from around the house.
If some of these weeds were harvested, dried I am sure you could
classify them as a herb. The whole issue about herbs is quite gray as
far as I see. So in my pasture it is okay since it is a naturally
occurring substance but bought at GNC the same exact substance is not
allowed?
Don't get we wrong I am not implying one should use these substances.
However, it's not all that clear how the drug rule expressly applies
unless these herbs contain prohibited active drugs in sufficient
amounts to have some pharmacological effect or a making agent. Both of
these are specifically addressed in the list that was at one time on
the AERC website.
The FDA has been wrestling with how to regulate the herbal industry for
several years and as of yet they (and Congress ) can't seem to come up
with anything that makes much sense. How do you regulate something
"grandma grows in the back yard (and has been doing it for 50 years )
as something to make her feed good on a cold day?"
Truman
Alison Farrin wrote:
From Rule 13. Endurance
equines must compete entirely on their natural ability. AERC prohibits
from competition equines who contain evidence of the administration of
abnormal substances or of normal substances in abnormal amounts
Most herbal essences are small concentrations
of plants normally occurring in a pasture. Therefore they do not meet
the test of an "abnormal substance" nor do they meet the test of a
"normal substance in an abnormal amount". Looks like a permitted
substance to me, until and unless you fed several bottles of it at once
and exceed a normal amount.
How are you interpreting the rule to get "a
substance not expressly permitted"?
Alison A. Farrin
Innovative Pension
Innovative Retirement Services
858-748-6500 x 107 alison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
