From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:36 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 FDA:

I am writing to ask you to stop the use of recombinant bovine growth 
 hormone.  This hormone causes health problems in the animals and it is 
not proved they don'e cause serious problems in people.  Their use is not 
beneficial to either consumers or cattle.  It is beneficial to producers.  
I would remind you that when a producer labeled his milk as not having 
rBGH in it he was sued even though he said nothing about the milk produced 
by those who were using it.  I maintain that if a product is good it will 
find its way into the market without problems.  

The FDA is supposed to regulate the producer so the consumer can feel 
safe.  More and more one has the feeling that the FDA is a client of the 
producers and manufactures and not the average taxpayer.

I expect the FDA to take a very cautious and independent look at all new 
things entering the market.  That's what the FDA is paid to do.  This is 
true of rBGH so please do not allow it to be used in this country.  It is 
banned in Canada and the European Union so why not in the United States?

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours truly

Janet Chafe



janet chafe
716 Schneider St. NE
Canton, OH, 44721

CC: 
FDA Dockets Management Branch, docket 98P-1194
President Bush
Vice President Cheney
Senator Mike DeWine
Senator George Voinovich
Representative Ralph Regula

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