From: Michael Rifkind [rdokarma@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:13 PM
To: EXECSEC
Subject: Attention of Commissioner Jane E. Henney, M.D. re: Antibiotic
misuse.

Jane E. Henney, M.D.
Commissioner
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
E-mail: execsec@oc.fda.gov

1-8-01

Dear Dr. Henney,

	I have been alerted to the dangers of current excessive uses of
antibiotics in farming practice. I expect that your offices have more
information to support the case of the dangers of current antibiotic
use/overuse  practices than that which I have examined, so I will refrain
from attachments to this note.  Please use the wisdom and authority of your
offices to reverse and ban such foolhardy exploitation of technology and
profiteering.
	I believe that a system of monitoring/repoprting use of antibiotics
may be in order.
					Thank you, Michael Rifkind