MessageFrom: Bill Bahan [spse@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 6:21 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket No. 96-0417

FDA:

I agree with Jonathan Emord's comments regarding Docket No. 96-0417 - Good Manufacturing Practice regulations for dietary supplements (see his comments at website listed below).

By sending this to you I have standing to sue you over the illegal GMP regs you're about to come out with for dietary supplements which will be even more stringent than pharmaceutical GMPs.

I realize you intend to attempt to attack the dietary supplement industry by using site licensing as a weapon the way the TGA did in Australia where they pulled 1600 products off the shelves under false pretenses, but don't even THINK about trying that in America! 

DSHEA only allows you to come out with FOOD BASED GMPs for dietary supplements, but you're attempting to destroy all the small supplement companies under an avalanche of unnecessary red tape. Emord will be suing to get an injunction in Federal Court to stop you from enforcing an illegal law, so you better pay attention to his comments below and save yourself the humiliation of being sued successfully again.

http://www.emord.com/proposed.htm

Bill Bahan, President
Standard Process Southeast, Inc.
4517 Sawnee Trail
Acworth, GA 30102