Charles G. Brown, National Counsel
Consumers for Dental Choice
charlie@toxicteeth.org
October 29, 2006
Citizen comments to FDA due Nov. 9
Folks, All of us have until Thursday, November 9, to submit comments to FDA about the harm done or threatened by mercury fillings. Our September 7 victory -- the rejection of FDA’s claim of safety by two scientific panels -- stands at risk as pro-mercury forces inside and outside FDA try to block the reforms called for by scientists.
Examples of potential topics could include:
- the “silver” deception that hides the mercury from children and adults,
- environmental data,
- personal experience,
- patients you have seen healed
- scientific information,
- impact on a family member,
- impact on the workplace
- self-interest by the pro-mercury dentists
- FDA’s preference of dentist protection over consumer protection
If you submitted comments this summer to the record, re-submit them. To our surprise, FDA will not put those comments on the record unless they are re-submitted.
Even after two scientific panels decisively voted “No” to FDA’s pseudo-scientific protection of amalgam, the pro-mercury bureaucrats at FDA aren’t giving up. Just yesterday, the Deputy Director of the Center on Devices of FDA, Linda Kahan, wrote me that she and Center Director Daniel Schultz have ruled that the notorious Dental Devices Branch -- the ADA-dominated sector who gave us the LSRO debacle and fiction that mercury causes “allergies” -- will remain in charge of the amalgam issue. Director Schultz, a physician, and Kahan, a lawyer, have decided that professional courtesy to their dentist friends outweighs the health of America’s children.
Thus, we must build a record that leaves no doubt in a court review. While Consumers for Dental Choice pursues other avenues -- our court case seeking a ban, Capitol Hill oversight, media attention – I ask that you do your part here by writing FDA.
Comments are due November 9, 2006
Send e-mail to FDADockets@oc.fda.gov
Be sure to put in the reference #, or it could get lost: 2006N-0352
And the topic “Mercury dental fillings”
You may also mail comments to:
Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305),
FDA, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061, Rockville, MD 20852