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Subject:	Comments for 98N-339_WC127
Date:		Thursday, January 21, 1999 at 10:46:56 pm EST
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Comments:	In all too many cases the FDA appears to rubber stamp safety tests (which are then often SEALED) done by the manufacturers of drugs, while doing everything in its power to hamper the health food supplement field. I would like to see an approach whereby the FDA looks at any product FIRST as to what good might it do. Drug manufacturers should have no more priority at getting products to market than any other industry. Prescribed medications cause over 100,000 deaths a year in the USA; health food supplements virtually none. In all honesty, the FDA appears to work for the drug manufacturers, not for the American people.
  
Signature:	Mr. David Felt
Submitter:	Mr. David Felt
E-Mail:		feltdd@ix.netcom.com

Keywords:	I_ProdSafeAssr,I_FoodSafe,Q_ClarRevProc,Q_AddlObj