MMS Is Pure Poison, But the FDA Doesn't Stop It

by Heidi Stevenson

27 September 2010

The internet is full of sites fraudulently selling Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS), a product that's pure poison. Yet, it appears that the FDA has taken only the most minimal action against a single purveyor. Worse, that action consisted only of a letter sent on 6 January 2009, nearly 21 months ago⁽¹⁾—and three of the four sites cited are still pushing MMS.⁽²⁾

Hyped as the breakthrough that could save your life, purveyors of MMS claim that it's the:

...answer to AIDS, hepatitis A, B and C, malaria, herpes, TB, most cancer and many more of mankind's worse diseases has been found. Many diseases are now easily controlled. More than 75,000 disease victims have been included in the field tests in Africa. Scientific clinical trials have been conducted in a prison in the country of Malawi, East Africa.⁽³⁾

Chlorine dioxide (chlorite) is used to kill microbes in water, such as swimming pools, because it's a poison to living creatures, including humans. While exposure to very small quantities is considered relatively safe—which is why it's used as a water decontaminant—it has never been shown to have any benefit to a living creature—and MMS is sold for ingestion.

Humble's Claims for MMS

Jim Humble, the self-styled discoverer of MMS, has pushed the fact that chlorite can kill microbes to sell the poison as a cure-all for virtually every disease known to us. He claims to have done many trials proving it, but it would be nice to see them.

He claims that all pathogens are anaerobic, that is, they do not utilize oxygen. This is simply untrue. Pathogens come in both aerobic and nonaerobic types. Bacteria associated with gonorrhea, tuberculosis, and several others are strictly aerobic. Therefore, Humble's claims are immediately demonstrated as false.

Humble's claims of MMS's safety are specious, as demonstrated by the death of a UK truck driver and OSHA's recognition of its toxicity.

Fines for Chlorite Death

In the UK, truck driver John Marriott, age 59 of Leicestershire, died from inhalation of chloride dioxin (chlorite) gas. It was used in a chemical process by his employer, and he mistakenly mixed up the hoses on his rig, resulting in the gas's release, which killed him. Marriott's employer was fined £350,000 for the accident.⁽⁴⁾

This is exactly the same product that a huge number of vendors are calling MMS, labeling as a supplement, and claiming can heal nearly every disease known to us.

OSHA's Guidance

The Occupational Safety and Health Act has issued a guidance on chlorite⁽⁵⁾ because of its risks. Any worker who deals with it must avoid contact with the skin. Yet, MMS is sold for ingestion.

What's in MMS

MMS consists of two bottles. One contains sodium chlorite, a chemical consisting of one atom of sodium, one of chlorine, and two of oxygen: NaClO₂. The other holds an activator, usually citric acid. The purchaser is instructed to mix them. Occasionally, only the sodium chlorite is sold. In such cases, instructions are given to mix it with a citric acid, like lemon or lime juice, or vinegar. Oddly, though citrus juices contain vitamin C, the instructions usually say that it shouldn't be mixed with it.

Purchasers are informed that diarrhea and vomiting are good signs, that it means the body is detoxing poisons. In that, they're certainly correct—but what they don't tell you is that the poison it's trying to be rid of is chlorite. When the diarrhea and vomiting ease, the user is instructed to increase the dose!

The claim is made that it's virtually impossible to overdose on it because you'll vomit if you do. Exactly how you're supposed to know the difference between the "normal" vomiting and the result of poisoning is unexplained.

Even the name of the product is misleading. In absolutely no sense is MMS a supplement. The human body has no need for chlorite. Period. It would be entirely reasonable for the FDA to go after sellers of MMS on that basis alone—but they never have. Instead, they've sent a single letter to a single seller stating that their claims cause it to be a drug, and haven't followed up on it.

FDA's Purpose

Who is the FDA trying to kid? Wonderfully healthy products are forced off the market and people are imprisoned and lives are destroyed by the FDA—but a genuinely harmful product is fraudlently marketed as a supplement, and the FDA just sits back and lets it happen. Well, they did a token letter to a single purveyor—the usual "your claims make this a drug" routine. However, that appears to have been the end of it.

Do a Google search for "Miracle Mineral Supplement" or "MMS". You'll see page after page of links. Some debunk the product, but the greatest percentage is of sites that either sell the product or link to such sites.

Why did the FDA select a single seller of MMS and ignore all the rest? And then ignore the fact that the product is still being sold? Could it be that the FDA is just putting on a show?

Is there any other explanation?

The FDA serves its masters, not the public. Its masters are Big Pharma multinational corporations. So, the question that should be asked is, "Why doesn't Big Pharma care that MMS is marketed?" The answer is obvious: MMS is not competition. Big Pharma hasn't the slightest concern about it. MMS is a poison that has no sales potential as a drug. So, Big Pharma hasn't instructed the FDA to go after MMS sellers.

What could better demonstrate the FDA's lack of interest in protecting the public? A product that is nothing but a poison receives only enough response to give the impression that they're on the job, but without any follow-up. The product continues to be be sold.

It's next to impossible to get a Big Pharma-manufactured drug pulled from the market, even after it's killed thousands of people. Legitimate products that have genuine research behind them showing their benefits are stopped by the FDA using any underhanded trick available. They're redefined as drugs. Even walnuts have been labeled as a drug because health claims have been made for them.

The real goal of the FDA is to make the world safe for Big Pharma and Agribusiness. If a product represents competition, then it must go. The science is irrelevant—and if Senate Bill 3767 is passed, simply making a claim that the FDA doesn't like, no matter how definitive the science that supports it, could result in a ten-year prison sentence.

Protecting the consumer is simply not the goal. The FDA has become little more than an enforcer for its masters—Big Pharma and Agribusiness. Alternative medicine is a target when it's a competitive threat. When it isn't, little attention is paid—just enough to put on a show, but not enough to take serious resources away from persecuting real competition.

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