Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals Inc. (fka RCPIQ)

[A Dinosaur]

Lief,
There seems to be a bit of confusion (deliberate, I suspect) about Life Extension Foundation (http://www.lef.org/) and Life Enhancement Products (http://www.life-enhancement.com/).

Life Enhancement Products is the company who went to court with the FDA to allow true statements to be used in the marketing of supplements (http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-dc-circuit/1311814.html). Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, who write for Life Enhancement Magazine and market their products through Life-Enhancement.com filed suit against HHS. I think Will Block, the founder of LEP, not LEF, supported them. Seems to me that it took 3 years, but they won.

The summary:

"Marketers of dietary supplements must, before including on their labels a claim characterizing the relationship of the supplement to a disease or health-related condition, submit the claim to the Food and Drug Administration for preapproval. The FDA authorizes a claim only if it finds “significant scientific agreement” among experts that the claim is supported by the available evidence. Appellants failed to persuade the FDA to authorize four such claims and sought relief in the district court, where their various constitutional and statutory challenges were rejected. We reverse."

Here's a newer case that went all the way.
http://www.life-enhancement.com/magazine/article/2629-pearson-v--shalala-makes-it-to-the-u-s--supreme-court---sort-of

I don't know how LEF fits in the picture, if at all.

Dino