Re: FDA Draft Report Urges Consumption of Fish, Despite Mercu ry Contamination - washingtonpost.com

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The FDA is incompetent by its own evaluation of itself. It has become a trade arm for the very industries it was mandated to regulate.

It is so broken, in fact, it actually needs to be replaced altogether. First and foremost, there needs to be an organization - a Federal Agency for Food... that is not allowed to take money from anyone but taxpayers. No one with ties to industry should be allowed to be connected to it.

THis new agency needs to warn abouit mercury in fish, it needs to end the use of aspartame, etc... there is so much for it to do. Our food supply is killing usKP Stoller, MD, FACHMPresident, International Hyperbaric Medical AssocMedical Director, Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexicowww.hbotnm.com-- Sheri Nakken wrote:

"If approved by the White House, the FDA's position would reverse the government's current policy that certain groups -- women of childbearing years, pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants and children -- can be harmed by the mercury in fish and should limit their consumption. The FDA's recommendations have alarmed scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, who in internal memos criticized them as "scientifically flawed and inadequate" and said they fell short of the "scientific rigor routinely demonstrated by EPA." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103394.html?wprss=rss_health

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