From: BULLELKMAN@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:11 AM
To: FDADockets@oc.fda.gov; brownchas@erols.com
Cc: sandyduffy@comcast.net; FreKoss@aol.com
Subject: Docket Number #03N-0169

Dear FDA,

 

Please post this e-mail to Docket Number # 03N-0169. It is imperative that this important information becomes part of public record on mercury dental fillings. By recording this 

e-mail to Docket Number #03N-0169, it becomes information that will be available to the "public" to include the American public, elected officials and the media because of Freedom of Information Act. 

 

It is critical that the "public" has access to this information.

 

Thank you,

Mary Ann Newell

Manager of the Files for Consumers for Dental Choice

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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Brown [mailto:brownchas@erols.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 12:17 PM
To: Meryl Karol-Ph. D.; sberent@umich.edu; rbrent@nemours.org;
bruckner@rx.uga.edu; jdoull@kumc.edu; megershwin@ucdavis.edu;
Rhood@BSC.AS.UA.edu; gmatanos@jhsph.edu; Raphael.rubin@jefferson.edu;
Bernard_weiss@urmc.rochester.edu; Michael Falk; Amy Brownawell;
EOHankins@betah.com
Cc: Nick Mutton; Richard Butcher; Alan Slobodin; Adam Greenlaw; Cindy
Bethell (Lautenberg); Bill Chatfield; Jamie Wolszon; Adam Greenlaw
Subject: Dr. Brent: Your pro-corporate bias of blaming the parents means
you should resign from the LSRO panel.


Robert Brent, MD, panelist for LSRO Inc.
Philadelphia
    Re:  You should resign immediately from the LSRO panel

Dear Dr. Brent:
    Mr. Falk and Ms. Brownawell’s decision to pack the panel to “study” the
peer-reviewed literature on mercury fillings with a combination of mercury
apologists and ‘get along-go along’ types has been unmasked by your
interview in one of the nation’s foremost newspapers (attached).  You have
staked your reputation on the scientifically absurd position that parents
should stop worrying about exposure of their children to toxins like
mercury, and focus solely on avoiding personal negligence.

    While such an interview provides the ingredients to be a dream witness for
corporate America in litigation on toxic materials, it is clear you have no
place on this panel.

    Both NIDCR and Falk promised -- obviously with no sincerity -- that the
panel would be composed of person without a scientific stake in the mercury
fillings debate. You, sir, have a major stake.

    It’s abundantly clear you cannot sign your name to any report that
acknowledges the peer-reviewed literature showing the health risks of
mercury-based dental fillings -- because it would impact negatively on your
carefully-crafted reputation for blaming parents for harm to their children,
and absolving those who manufacture or implant toxins.

    You should resign from the panel now.

Charles G. Brown, counsel
Consumers for Dental Choice
July 27, 2004

cc—Panelists:  Meryl Karol, Ph.D., Chair; Stanley Berent, M.S., Ph.D., James
V. Bruckner, M.S., Ph.D., John Doull, M.D., Ph.D., M. Eric Gershwin, M.D.,
Ronald D. Hood, M.S., Ph.D., Genevieve Matanoski, M.D., Dr.P.H., Raphael
Rubin, M.D., Bernard Weiss,
LSRO:  Michael Falk,  Amy Brownawell
Betah Associates: Eppie Hankins

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