From: Marilyn Sunia [msunia@pacbell.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:53 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: 02N-0209-Request for comment on First Ammendment Issues

FDA:

I would like to make my comments known to the FDA regarding the
'warnings' on labels of dietary supplements.

When it is stated, 'This product has not been evaluated by the FDA',
most people are LEAD to believe that it could possibly NOT be safe.
This is deceiving the American public through crafty language.
The FDA's job is to protect the public from potential danger.
This is not protecting the American people. It is protecting
the threatened pharmaceutical industry. A statement should not be made
at all. This 'warning' may deter someone, that could have been helped.
I could have been one of these people, but I was given an 'education',
(thankfully!) and I have never felt better in my entire life. No drug
could have
ever given back my health. I was not 'drug deficient', but phytonutrient
deficient!!

Freedom of Speech MEANT that FREEDOM of Speech should be truthful and
NOT MISLEADING. The statements made by the FDA regarding a product 'not
evaluated by the FDA' (or words to that effect)  is TRULY MISLEADING and
wards off people that could otherwise chosen to take responsibility for
their wellness, but instead, did exactly what the FDA wanted them to do.
This gives the unfair advantage to 'the P team'... the pharmaceutical
industry, that the AMA claims has harmed over 100,000 people a year
through properly prescribed drugs!

This one-sided  misleading labeling issue that indirectly persuades
people  has become a double sided razor and therefore, I detest any  of
these statements made by the FDA on labels. Let the people make their
own informed choices and not be persuaded by a greedy and arrogant
institution making misleading statements that works for trillions of
dollars and not the best interests for the people just wanting  to take
care of their bodies and to lead productive lives.

Sincerely,

M.Sun