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February, 20th, 2002 Robert E. Ottaviano, Jr.,
Special Agent RE: MICOM IV, a
hyperpotassemic cardiotoxic product, falsely represented as a food supplement.
On
the next page is my brief summary of the MICOM case, which should be enough for
the FDA, the FCC, and the U.S. Attorney, to immediately take felony murder*
criminal action against Brown, her Natureís Friend operation, and all other
sellers (including Sonamed Internacional, which advertises in the U.S. on the
web that it sells MICOM IV to U.S. buyers, to whom it ships the product, and
therefore puts itself under American law (under the Commerce Clause of the US
Constitution), since it both advertises and ships the lethal product across U.S.
state lines, falsely representing this lethal product as a beneficial and safe
food supplement, and the Connee Halsey Memorial Restoration Center, P.O. Box 39,
Days Creek, OR 97294, which advertises and sells MICOM IV it purchases from
Sonamed (and which sold to Brown the MICOM IV with which she killed Steward).
*The legal definition
of felony murder is a death occurring during the commission of a felony.
The felony here is fraud. The
legal definition of fraud is deception for profit. The deception is the
representation by defendants that MICOM is helpful against cancer; the profit is
the money the defendants all make from selling MICOM. Incidentally,
the Oregon MICOM IV sellers occupied nearly all of the seats for the public in
the courtroom, and one of them button-holed a juror and tried to convince her to
find Brown innocent. The juror immediately informed the Court marshal, who
informed the judge, who ordered the culprit permanently out of the courtroom and
forbidden (as were all others in or near the courtroom) to make contact with any
juror during the trial. MICOM, AN ìALTERNATIVE MEDICINEî NATURAL MINERAL WATER ALLEGED CANCER ìTHERAPYî, HAS CARDIOTOXIC CONCENTRATIONS OF POTASSIUM, WHICH CAN BE LETHAL. Victor Herbert. Mt Sinai-NYU Health System & Bronx VA Med Ctr, 130 W. Kingsbridge Rd, Bronx, NY 10468. There are 3 kinds of alternative medicine: genuine, experimental, and fraudulent (Herbert & Barrett. In: Shils et al.,eds. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease. Williams & Wilkins, 1999, pp.1793-1812). MICOM, a mineral spring water, is represented by distributor Somamed Internacional as a cancer therapy, and labeled as a food supplement, avoiding FDA oversight. (The 1994 DSHEA Act forbids FDA from preventing marketing of any product labeled ìfood supplement.î) Nurse Joyce Brown, proprietor of Natureís Friend food supplements in Kelso, WA, gave cancer patient Steward an IV drip from a 500ml plastic IV bag of MICOM. He died as the drip ran in. Autopsy reported ìAcute congestive heart failure & renal failure following infusion of 02mygaIII (MICOM). Manner of death: Homicide.î As an expert witness in State of Washington v Joyce Brown (Superior Court of Washington, Cowlitz County), I testified that the MICOM drip gradually slowed and finally stopped the ability of his heart to pump blood when he had gotten 340 of the 500 mL of MICOM, because it contained a cardiotoxically high concentration of potassium (6700 mcg/mL, determined in an FDA laboratory). On 2/13/02, Brown was found guilty of manslaughter. Nobody should take MICOM. There is nothing in the peer-reviewed literature demonstrating any efficacy, and, as reported here, it is unequivocally unsafe. Victor Herbert, M.D., J.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.S.M. (London)
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