For Texas ladies, and anyone concerned

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From: " m keeling (by way of ilena rose) " <keeling.m@...>

Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 7:01 PM

Subject: Senator Kay Hutchison

> Please post the following to your e-mail lists:

>

> TO ALL TEXAS WOMEN AND FRIENDS WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT WOMEN'S HEALTH

ISSUES

>

> AND IN PARTICULAR, THE SILICONE CONTROVERSY

>

> Lynn Fladung, a Republican breast implant survivor from Houston, called

Quin

> Dodd, Senator Kay Hutchison's Senior Legislative Aide in charge of

> health issues, to inquire as to the reason the Senator was unwilling to

> co-sponsor S.961 " The Silicone Breast Implant Research and Information "

> legislation. Quin stated that with the addition this year of the

paragraph

> asking for a conclusion of the FDA criminal investigation started in l998,

> the Senator felt this was a judicial issue, should not be legislated and

was

> probably unconstitutional. Therefore, she felt she could no longer

> co-sponsor the legislation, but might vote for it if it came to a vote.

>

> It should be pointed out that Mentor is the company that is being

> investigated by the Office of Criminal Investigation (OCI) at the FDA for

> allegations of under-reporting of complication in their adjunct studies

and

> significant Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) violations. A confidential

> informant on the investigation and a FDA employee who had significant

> knowledge about the criminal investigation, tried to meet with KBH office,

> specifically with Quin Dodd, to explain why the clause was needed in the

> legislation. Quin arrived late to the meeting and it was clear he did not

> understand the situation.

>

> The finding of significant amounts of platinum in a harmful form after

> long-term implantation has been recently added to the agenda at the OCI.

> Mentor's breast implant manufacturing plant is in Texas and we suspect

> Mentor, Dow, and other former and current breast implant manufacturers

have

> lobbied KBH extensively.

>

> If you would like to help, please write, e-mail, or call Senator KBH at

284

> Senate Building, Washington, D. C. 20510. 202/224-5922 or

> senator@.... If you know she is going to be in your

city,

> please ask for an appointment. Please put any inquiry's to the attention

of

> her chief of staff Lee .

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