> By the way drug is defined in
>Taber's Medical Dictionary as, "Any substance that when taken into the living
>organism may modify one or more of its functions."

How does Taber's define food, then?  Surely all foods taken into the living
organism may "modify one or more of its functions"??

>The government has chosen to look at formula as a food substance(sure looks
>like chemicals to me).

Not to be picky semantically here, but all food is made up 100% of
chemicals.  Cow's milk, grass, bananas, eggs, a steak, green beans, wheat
-- everything is made up 100% of chemicals.  Some are natural (made in/by
nature) and others are synthetic (made in a laboratory), but they're all
still chemicals.  So being chemicals or not doesn't distinguish food from
drugs.

There is no clear way to distinguish a food from a food additive from an
herb from a drug.  Herbs are all plants, while food can be plant, animal,
or mineral.  But foods can definitely have pharmacologically active
substances in them.

To be sure, it's not a debate we will solve on LactNet.

Kathy Dettwyler

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