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Notes 1. Quoted in Kurt Eichenwald et aI., "Biotechnology Food: From the Lab to a Debacle", New York Times, 25 January 2001.
2. Ibid. 3. Dr. Henry Miller, quoted in Eichenwald et ai., op.cit. Miller, who was responsible for biotechnology issues at the Food and Drug Administration from 1979 to 1994, told the New York Times: "In this area, the u.s. government agencies have done exactly what big agribusiness has asked them to do and told them to do." 4. Eichenwald, op. cit. 5. Claire Hope Cummings, Are GMOs Being Regulated or Not?, 11 June 2003, in http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstry66t7.htrnl?recid= 1736. Cummings was a senior US Department of Agriculture official at the time. 6. Jeffrey Smith, Got Hormones-The Controversial Milk Drug that Refuses to Die, December 2004, http://www.responsibletechnology.org. 7. Robert P. Heaney, et ai., "Dietary Changes. Favorably Affect Bone Remodeling in Older Adults;' Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 99, no. 10, October 1999, pp. 1228-1233. Also, "Milk, Pregnancy, Cancer May Be Tied", 'Reuters, 10 September 2002. 8. Dr. Robert Collier, quoted in Jane Akre & Steve Wilson, from text of banned FOX TV documentary, "The Mystery in Your Milk;' in http://www.mercola.coml 2001lmay/26/mystery_milk.htm. 9. Jennifer Ferrara, "Revolving Doors: Monsanto and the Regulators", The Ecologist, September/October 1998. 10. Michael R. Taylor, "Biography", in Food Safety Research Consortium, Steering Committee, in http://www.rff.orglfsrc/bios.htm. 11. Robert .cohen, FDA Regulation Meant to Promote rBGH Milk Resulted in Antibiotic Resistance,S May 2000, in http://www.psrast.orglbghsalmonella.htm. 12. James Maryansky, quoted in Julian Borger, "Why Americans are Happy to Swallow the GM Food Experiment", The Guardian, 20 February 1999. 13. Steven M. Druker, Bio-deception: How the Food and Drug Administration is Misrepresenting the Facts about Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods ... , http://www.psrast.orglfdaiawstmore.htm. Druker drafted the statement in May 1998 as part of a lawsuit against the FDA to demand mandatory testing and labeling of GMO food, both of which are not, as of 2007, done in the United States. 14. In his book, Milk, the Deadly Poison, Argus Press, Inglewood Cliffs, NJ, 1997, pp. 67-96, Robert Cohen describes his efforts to obtain a copy of this unpublished study from the FDA. Cohen filed a Freedom of Information Act request