From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 9:50 PM
To: FDA Commissioner
Cc: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov; president@whitehouse.gov;
vice.president@whitehouse.gov
Subject: Remove rBGH from the market!

FDA Commissioner
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane
Room 1061 (HFA-305)
Rockville, MD 20852

RE: Docket No. 98P-1194

Dear Sir or Madam:

I am writing to request that you immediately remove rBGH from the market. 
 Doesn't the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act require you to withdraw animal 
drugs from the market that show evidence of imminent health hazards? 
Abundant scientific evidence shows that rBGH causes health problems in 
both cows and humans. You are supposed to be insuring the safety of our 
food supply, and from what I've seen with organic standards and 
genetically engineered foods, you're failing miserably. Why do you allow 
rBGH on the market when Canada and the European Union do not? 

Yours truly,

Mark Lipsman

Mark Lipsman
38 Harvard Road
Littleton, MA, 01460

CC: 
FDA Dockets Management Branch, docket 98P-1194
President Bush
Vice President Cheney
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Senator John F. Kerry
Representative Martin T. Meehan

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