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06-21-2013, 06:49 PM | #1 (permalink) |
Team TanTalk Join Date: Aug 27 2002 Location: East Coast Age: 56
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Rep Power: 22 | ITA Update 6/21/13 - IMPORTANT Indoor Tanning Association, Inc., 2025 M St, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 · Phone: 888-377-0477 · Fax: 202-367-2142 Member Update 06/21/2013: Member Alert ITA’s Response to the FDA Administrative Order As everyone is certainly aware, in early May the FDA issued an Administrative Order reclassifying ultraviolet lamps for tanning to a class II medical device. If this order is approved, it could have a significant negative impact on your business. The ITA is planning a comprehensive response. We will address a number of major issues including the following. The Economic Impact will be harmful to small business:
We know from recent statements made by the FDA that the number of comments filed has an impact on the FDA’s final decision. We also know that the American Academy of Dermatology and other anti-tanning lobbying groups are mounting an aggressive campaign to get their members to generate comments to the FDA in support of the order. This is a link to the AAD campaign website: click here. Please join us and contact the FDA to oppose the proposed order! ·Click here to access a template that you can use to customize your comments Click Here ·Click here to access filing instructions Click Here Please focus your remarks on the negative economic impact that reclassification would have on you personally and talk about how this change could affect your business and livelihood. Please use the issues outlined above and apply them to your business. For example:
Please send the ITA a copy of the comments you submit to the FDA. If you have any question or need assistance, please contact the ITA admin@theita.com or call 202 367 1142. |
06-24-2013, 09:08 AM | #2 (permalink) | |
Lamp Geek Join Date: Dec 21 2001 Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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Rep Power: 23 | Re: ITA Update 6/21/13 - IMPORTANT The AAD is pushing this: Quote:
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06-24-2013, 02:28 PM | #4 (permalink) |
Lamp Geek Join Date: Dec 21 2001 Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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Rep Power: 23 | Re: ITA Update 6/21/13 - IMPORTANT Don, that's great. I think this is the way to go. Instead we will say poor us, we are so poor, quit picking on us. (Which doesn't work & won't work) We need science & math to fight the science & math of the these bogus reports. We then need the FDA to do their job & review all that is put on the table. Crying about taxes & economy doesn't help us at all.
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06-24-2013, 03:01 PM | #5 (permalink) |
Join Date: Aug 21 2007 Location: San Jose, CA
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Rep Power: 17 | Re: ITA Update 6/21/13 - IMPORTANT Coming from a science background, I hate when a "study" ends up being nothing more than a journal review of the literature. Calling that a study is an insult and misleads the public. Original work would constitute a study not combining multiple works that are incongruous to one another to come up with a statistic is despicable. It's all anecdotal too. Don is right, we have to refute this "study" for what it is: manipulation. |
06-27-2013, 09:27 AM | #6 (permalink) |
Join Date: Mar 18 2005 Location: GA
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Rep Power: 20 | Re: ITA Update 6/21/13 - IMPORTANT How do you fight a group who is being given preferential treatment by government agencies and whom presents and accepts lies as the truth? This is exactly the same thing as the climate debate. There is no place to with this. |
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