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[John Maurer <jmaurer73@verizon.net>]

My personal opinions:

1.  Food producers should produce food, not make health claims.  They 
should be able to support organizations qualified to study and make 
health claims, however.
2.  The importation ban was a misguided program against invasive 
species, not food.
3.  Small and large food producers should be held to the same standards.
4.  The last administration gutted the FDA and manned it with cronies 
from the pharmaceutical industry.  It will take some time to return it 
to a public-serving organization, but the work has already begun.


John M.
Northern VA
Zone 6/7