FDA Issues Warning About Drinking MMS
It’s been a while since we’ve posted to our blog and I thought it an opportune time to do so. This post is long and informative and I recommend you read it in its entirety.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about drinking MMS. You can read the press release here.
Phaelosopher, a long-time MMS blogger, has given his own thoughts to this issue and you can read his article here.
The press release states that the FDA has received several reports of injuries from people using MMS internally, citing specifically severe nausea, vomiting, and low blood pressure caused by dehydration. The FDA recommends that consumers who own MMS should get rid of it by throwing it away.
Before getting on to the analysis of the report, I would like to make an important point regarding the FDA’s recommendation for consumers to throw away their MMS. The active ingredient in MMS is sodium chlorite, which is an oxidizer and in its solid state is flammable. It goes without saying that household chemicals should not be thrown away into the trash. If for some unspecified reason you ever do want to dispose of MMS, do not throw your MMS into the trash. Doing so can cause a fire hazard during the waste management process. To properly dispose of MMS, take it to a local waste facility and tell them it is a mild oxidizer. I do not expect that any thinking person would a. need to be told this or b. will throw their MMS out in the first place, given that it is many times safer than the majority of the household cleaning products you currently have under your sink.
An analysis of the Food and Drug Administration’s warning:
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The product, when used as directed, produces an industrial bleach that can cause serious harm to health.
The FDA points out in a later section of the press release that MMS labels vary from supplier to supplier. Because of this, the directions for use also vary from supplier to supplier. I cannot speak to the directions for use on other suppliers’ labels. As for our MMS, our directions for use do not in any way put our customers at risk for serious harm to health. Our directions for use include, and are limited to purifying water, washing food products, and treating well water. The procedure detailed for using our MMS requires actions on the user’s part which are much safer than other common household practices, such as cleaning your toilet bowl, freshening your air, and endless other common practices.
The result of consumers’ endless use of these toxic products has been pointed out by the the Environmental Protection Agency regarding the high toxicity of the average household environment. Regarding indoor air quality, the EPA writes,
In the last several years, a growing body of scientific evidence has indicated that the air within homes and other buildings can be more seriously polluted than the outdoor air in even the largest and most industrialized cities.
We are happy to say that our MMS products do not contribute to this ludicrous set of circumstances.
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The product instructs consumers to mix the 28 percent sodium chlorite solution with an acid such as citrus juice. This mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment.
Chlorine dioxide is potent when it is made to be so. However, like many other compounds, including oxidizers, the potency depends on the ratios used to create the chlorine dioxide. Aquamira, for example, has a very nice line of chlorine dioxide products targeted toward outdoor adventurers. Their formulation of chlorite and activator is more mild than our MMS formula, but the effect is the same. Our MMS is essentially a more powerful version of these and related products, and our MMS is intended to achieve the same results for our customers, as well as other results in other applications, for which Aquamira’s and related products could also be used with greater or lesser efficiency.
Adding to this point, hydrogen peroxide, perhaps the most common household oxidizer after bleach, is created to be many times more potent than its highly diluted consumer variant. Store-bought hydrogen peroxide is diluted with water to 3% or 6% by weight. This is because hydrogen peroxide, like chlorine dioxide, is a strong oxidizer, and consumers don’t need more than a very dilute amount to accomplish most household tasks requiring oxidation.
The beauty of MMS is that it generates chlorine dioxide on demand, and consumers can specify to a large degree the potency they need for a variety of tasks. Purifying spring or well water, for example, requires no more than one drop of MMS per gallon, while cleaning mold from tile requires several dozen drops in a pint or quart of water.
The FDA refers to chlorine dioxide as an element of ‘industrial water treatment.’ This is true, and I submit that their choice of words gives the statement a scarier tone than is necessary. Western European countries have been using chlorine dioxide to treat their drinking water for decades now. We in the United States, on the other hand, continue to use household bleach to treat our water, which is not only a neurotoxin but creates trihalomethanes, which are serious carcinogens. You can read more about water treatment in our article on MMS and water purification. And as a European customer of ours who lives in America commented on our blog, many Europeans with their heads screwed on straight are amazed and disgusted that we continue our obsession with toxic chemicals.
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MMS claims to treat multiple unrelated diseases, including HIV, hepatitis, the H1N1 flu virus, common colds, acne, cancer, and other conditions.
We have been involved with MMS for almost three years now; long before millions of people had heard of it and hundreds of thousands of people began using it. I would like to make it clear that we do not and will never endorse or publish material which recommends using MMS internally. If you have read our site then this is nothing new to you. There is not a single reference to using MMS internally on our website.
We do, however recognize that our customers will do what they choose with our MMS. Rather than belabor the point, I will quote from my furious rant responding to Wikipedia’s MMS entry:
We’re not ignorant of the ways in which people use MMS. We know that people use MMS internally. Can we stop that? No. We don’t recommend it because we are wading through all of the red tape that surrounds practically everything that is helpful, profitable, or interesting for all of humanity, and MMS is one such thing.
Does the fact that bleach is toxic stop companies from selling it or people from using it? Does the fact that automobiles are dangerous prevent car companies from selling cars or people from driving them? No.
We have made it very clear, both on our website and in communication with our customers, that we sell an oxidizer. No more, no less. That is what MMS is to us, an oxidizer. Despite more and more Americans’ increasing propensity in recent years for being told how to think, what to do and how to do it, we believe that our customers can think for themselves, inform themselves, and make decisions for themselves. That is why we write intelligently about our products and present them for what they are, rather than insulting our customers with miracle claims and silly sales pages.
Furthermore, we have gone to great lengths to inform our customers about how they can choose to use MMS in a wide variety of ways, none of which are pertaining to using MMS internally. You can see our lengthy article here, the only such article published on the subject, for ideas on dozens of ways we have found to put MMS to use around the house.
Furthermore, we indicate clearly that our products are sold for water purification purposes. I quote from our product label:
In case of ingestion, drink plenty of water and if necessary seek a medical professional.
The product is not a health supplement of any kind. It is sold for water purification purposes only.
We make no judgment of how other MMS suppliers market their products or what they publish on their websites. We simply sell top-notch MMS to our well-informed base of customers who recognize our quality for what it is.
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MMS also poses a significant health risk to consumers who may choose to use this product for self-treatment instead of seeking FDA-approved treatments for these conditions.
I will not speak ill or well of the Food and Drug Association. As a simple statement of fact, I will only mention that there is no shortage of FDA-approved treatments which pose ‘a significant health risk to consumers’.
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The FDA continues to investigate and may pursue civil or criminal enforcement actions as appropriate to protect the public from this potentially dangerous product.
As a simple statement of fact, I again will only mention that there is no shortage of FDA-approved and ‘potentially dangerous products’ which the FDA does not pursue.
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The FDA advises consumers who have experienced any negative side effects from MMS to consult a health care professional as soon as possible and to discard the product.
We are in complete agreement with the FDA on the first part of this statement, as our products clearly indicate, and we have already made mention of the potential dangers associated with improperly discarding a product such as MMS.
The press release concludes by advising consumers and health care professionals to report adverse events from MMS to the FDA’s MedWatch program. Regarding health care professionals, it is worth mentioning that in our estimation we can safely place the number of American PhD and MD users of MMS in the thousands, and the number of other health care professionals using MMS in the thousands or tens of thousands. This is only relevant in that it highlights a dissonance between the FDA and a cross-section of the health care professionals toward whom their recommendation is directed.
My understanding of MMS is, and will continue to be:
We came across the inventor of MMS’s work and were profoundly impressed by his professional background, moral character, humanitarian tendancies, and most importantly, his understanding of and faith in simple science. We did not accept every claim and we did not interpret the findings, or the implications, in the same manner. One noticeable effect of this is that getMMS is among only a few MMS suppliers whose products are labeled specifically as water purification drops, and getMMS is the only MMS supplier who has put extensive effort into developing a knowledge base of uses for MMS as an effective alternative to dozens of toxic household products.
I have said it before and I will say it again: MMS is long overdue to humanity. Since getting involved with MMS, I have always felt that MMS has been missing in household cabinets since before the World War II era or thereabouts. It is truly a multi-use product and needs to be recognized as such. It is cheaper and safer to use than dozens of existing products and in many cases outperforms them in the jobs for which they are used.
There is more to be said on the FDA’s press release and its implications for the continued growth of MMS/Miracle Mineral Supplement/Miracle Mineral Solution/WPD/Water Purification Drops/28% Sodium Chlorite/Whatever You Want To Call It. Check our site often or subscribe for future updates.
On behalf of our customers, our friends in the industry, and everyone else involved with MMS in any positive way, we continue to wish you the very best. You are in our thoughts and our prayers.
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