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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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Message from Charlie Brown:



That Michael Falk and Amy Brownawell pre-selected some panelists based on their biases is starting to show.



In today’s New York Times, panelist Dr. Robert Brent states that Mercury is not something to be concerned about.  Those views, apparently not new, show Dr. Brent went into this process with beliefs that Mercury Fillings are safe.  His article discounting Mercury's toxicity was clearly being created WHILE or BEFORE he was on this panel.


As such, Falk and Brownawell’s stated promise that they were getting panelists without pre-existing views on Mercury is unraveling.   In Dr. Brent, they had a panelist whom they knew they had an advocate for their side. 



In addition, Falk continues to insist the dual role of Dr. Clarkson -- chief witness and outside reviewer -- is acceptable, when scientific principles suggest otherwise. 
 






The Real Risks to Children

By JANE E. BRODY

Published: July 13, 2004

any parents worry that their children may be harmed by exposure to environmental factors they cannot avoid or control, including pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables, approved food additives, chlorinated drinking water and hormones in milk.

They fear electromagnetic fields as a cause of childhood leukemia, a mercury preservative in vaccines as a cause of autism, and alar, a growth stimulant on apples, as a cause of cancer.

None of these are actual hazards. But even if they were, they are hardly the main threats to the health and lives of fetuses, infants, children and adolescents, says Dr. Robert L. Brent, a professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and a leading expert on what is and is not known about the effects of environmental chemicals and physical agents on developing humans. 

In the concluding chapter of a recent report, published as a supplement in the journal Pediatrics, Dr. Brent and his co-author, Dr. Michael Weitzman, a pediatrician at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, reviewed what are unquestionably the leading risks to infants, children and adolescents.