From: Katherine Williams [katherine09@mail.earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:14 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: limit speech of corporations!

To Whom it may concern:
First amendment protections must not be extended to corporations 
advertizing food and drugs!  The First amendment is in place to 
protect the free exchange of ideas and information among people.  It 
is not for allowing corporations to be unopposed in their efforts to 
influence the choices of consumers.

We can't let corporations have the ability to say whatever they 
please!  The tobacco and fast-food industries are under attack 
because their advertizing claims have been harmful to people.  The 
more we learn about the effect of advertizing on children the more 
alarmed we become.  We have seen from the recent corporate abuses 
that corporations are not self-regulating; competition motivates them 
to stop at nothing to increase profits.  Society needs to have the 
means to regulate these entities in a proactive and preventive way 
since there are few effective remedies for wrongdoing after the fact.

The FDA is in place to ensure the public welfare.  Make it the tool 
of corporations and you indeed serve us poorly.
Yours,
Katherine Williams
Santa Monica, California