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Issues - Article May 2001

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FDA Commissioner is Up for Appointment

President Bush is considering the appointment of a new FDA Commissioner. The FDA is in a critical position to administratively direct, whether lawfully or not, the direction of natural health products. The FDA Advisory committees are made up of individuals who have financial stakes in the pharmaceutical industries, many who receive waivers for their conflicts of interest.

I suggest you become involved in this issue of health freedom by becoming informed and by writing the president and congressional representatives. Below is a letter from William Faloon describing the situation:

Open Letter from William Faloon

The greatest obstacle to your health and longevity is the FDA.

Bureaucratic barriers at the FDA stifle the development of novel medicines, causing the suffering and death of Americans who desperately need these therapies to stay alive.

While Congress and the Federal Courts have helped curtail FDA over-regulation, today's flawed system continues to deny Americans access to the best that science has to offer.

We now have a unique opportunity to change the course of medical history. President Bush is considering whom to nominate as the next FDA Commissioner.

There is one candidate for the Commissioner the FDA in order to speed the delivery of the fruits of medical research to every one of us.

The name of this candidate is Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D. The information that follows shows that Dr. Ruwart is uniquely qualified to reform an agency that has lost touch with scientific objectivity.

It is imperative that you notify President Bush that Dr. Ruwart is the best person to remedy the severe problems that exist at the FDA. Please copy and mail the letter that follows to the President at the address we have provided.

If you want to do more, and we hope that you will, we encourage you to write a personalized letter to mail or fax to The White House.

We have also provided a phone number for those who want to call The White House to emphasize the importance of appointing Dr. Ruwart as the next FDA Commissioner.

Even if you have not participated in these types of FDA-reform campaigns in the past, we urge you to do so on this critical issue.

Our fear is that lifesaving therapies will continue to remain bogged down in FDA red tape if a change within the agency is not made. It has become so burdensome to gain FDA approval that innovative therapies in the U.S. are being abandoned because of extraordinarily high costs and uncertain bureaucratic delays.

If Dr. Ruwart were to become the new Commissioner, this barrier against medical innovation would be diminished.  More Americans would gain rapid access to novel medical treatments that could significantly extend the healthy human life span.

What makes the FDA problem unique is the possibility that each of us will die from a disease that could have been effectively treated if the FDA didn

Inefficient government thrives on citizen apathy, so please take the time to mail the enclosed letter to President Bush.  The life you save may be your own!

For longer life,

William Faloon

P.S. Those who understand the urgent need for FDA reform and want to do more should send The White House a personalized letter and/or make a phone call. The information that follows reveals how you can get your message through to The White House.

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