According to Montel, the CCSVI episode on Dr. Oz was to air in September, but it never happened.  There has been no update.

There was a recent controversy over Dr. Oz's program in which he reported on dangerous levels of arsenic (from pesticides) in commercially bottled apple juice.  I wonder if this may have had implications in the delayed airing of a potentially controversial episode on CCSVI treatment?

The apple juice/arsenic episode was so controversial, the FDA decided to step in to try and stop it before it aired.     Here's the actual letter issued by the FDA 

http://www.fda.gov/food/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm271630.htm

Dr. Oz went ahead with his program, anyway.  Kudos to him!

Dr. Oz said none of the organic apple juice tested by his commissioned lab contained arsenic. He urged viewers to check juice boxes for country of origin and to "vote with our pocketbooks," forcing change at the cash register by rejecting imported apple juice.

He was later eviscerated in the press...especially by his own network, ABC News and Dr. Besser.

Here's the video---Dr. Oz explains that the high arsenic levels are due to importation of apples from countries where the regulation of arsenic from pesticide levels is not as strict as in the US--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeRvTXUxgDU

Here is the "official" telling of the story from ABC News--

“I’m not fear-mongering,” Oz fired back. “We did our homework on this risk.”

Oz’s appearance on ‘GMA’ is the latest development in a story that likely has many parents on edge about whether to continue serving apple juice to their children.

Oz and the show’s producers drew criticism for Wednesday’s episode of the “Dr. Oz Show,” which focused on the dangers of trace levels of arsenic present in many popular brands of apple juice. Juice manufacturers, government regulators and scientists said the results of what the program called its “extensive national investigation” were misleading and needlessly frightening to consumers.

According to the “Dr. Oz Show,” a laboratory tested “three dozen samples from five different brands of apple juice across three American cities” and compared the levels of arsenic to the limits of arsenic for drinking water set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They found 10 samples of juice with arsenic levels higher than the limits for water.

In a statement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, “There is no evidence of any public health risk from drinking these juices.”

The FDA sent a letter to the Oz show Sept. 9, five days before the show was to air, which warned that airing the show would be “irresponsible” and “misleading” because the testing ignored that there are two forms of arsenic: organic and inorganic. Organic is generally thought not to be harmful to health, whereas inorganic is.

The FDA also conducted its own tests of the apple juice investigated by the “Dr. Oz Show.” In some of the very same lots of juice tested for the show, the FDA reported finding very low levels of inorganic arsenic; 6 parts per billion at most, even lower than the 10 parts per billion recommended by the EPA as a safe level for drinking water.

Oz acknowledged that “no children are dying from acute lethal arsenic poisoning,” stating instead that his concerns were about the long-term effect of arsenic exposure.

Still, Besser said Oz was implying to parents that drinking apple juice poses a risk to kids’ health.

“You have informed parents they are poisoning their children,” he said, a charge that Oz denied.

“We just want to have the conversation, and we’ve been trying to make this conversation happen,” Oz said.

He also added, “I would not take apple juice out of my kids’ containers now.”

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As we have learned, television programming and networks are beholden to corporate sponsors, and many were angered by Dr. Oz's reporting.  Here is a write up on this controversy from INDEPENDENT news source,  Politicol News.

Many of the companies that make the majority of apple juice for US consumption are sponsors of ABC.  In the news segment (Good Morning America), we noticed Dr. Oz remained calm and explained how his studies were proven, tested and applied twice on many samples, which of course Dr. Besser denied. Dr. Oz correctly told the public the truth, yet ABC misleads the public and the American people have the right to know what is in their food. 

Besser attempted to poke holes in the test results and ended up looking like a fanatical, demented supporter of arsenic, mostly he appeared like a lying fool.

If you go to ABC’s website you’ll see many stories laden with fear mongering of strange diseases, the threat of non-existent pandemics, the need to vaccinate against these phony diseases and not one article or news story that promotes alternative health, vitamins, supplements and healthy alternatives to drugs and vaccines.

http://www.politicolnews.com/abc-news-pandemic-fear-mongering/

ABC has more than a few pharmaceutical sponsors....perhaps I have just become paranoid, but I am not holding my breath regarding an upcoming episode of CCSVI research on Dr. Oz.  If anyone has any knowledge that the Montel WIlliams/CCSVI episode is going to air, please....let us know.

Joan