Commercially exploitative food labelling

Some foods have medicinal properties. If they are sold as foods, they are usually available at a reasonable price from numerous merchants. If they are sold as drugs, they are sold only by pharmaceutical companies at inflated prices.

The consequences of classifying a food as a drug are formal testing of its medicinal properties by a regulatory agency, and standardization of its labels to include legally required information about the medicinal contents, their effects and side-effects, and the recommended dosage.

1. Profiteering
2. Price fixing

1. Repudiation of complementary medicine

1. Inadequate testing of drugs
2. Excessive consumption of vitamins

1. Inadequate drug classification
2. Harmful natural foodstuffs

1. Testing foodstuffs
2. Standardizing products
3. Harmonizing labelling
4. Conducting drug testing

1. Profiteering
2. Misclassification
3. Exploitation