X-Message-Number: 492.3
From: Saul Kent
Subject: Life Extension's 5th lawsuit against the FDA

	The Life Extension Foundation
	A Non-Profit Tax Exempt Foundation
	2490 Griffin Road
	Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312
	In Hollywood Aera: (305) 966-4886
	Toll-Free Number 1-800-841-LIFE

	Call Catherine J. Frompovich, Ph.D. 215-346-8461, FAX 215-346-6826
	Saul Kent 714-780-3252  FAX 714-780-5758

For Immediate Release

Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Oct. 7, 1991 -- The Life Extension Foundation (and its
officers, Saul Kent and William Faloon) just filed their fifth lawsuit
against the U.S. Food And Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. District
Court in South Florida.  Also named as defendants in the suit are the U.S.
Department of Health And Human Services and Dexter Lehtinen, U.S. Attorney
for the Southern District of Florida.

The lawsuit asks the court to grant the plaintiffs a Declaratory Judgment
and Injunction prohibiting the defendants from selectively and
inappropriately enforcing the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
"in retaliation and as punishment" for Plaintiffs' exercise of their right
to redress against government agencies (as protected by the Constitution of
the United States) through the publishing of articles, brochures,
caricatures, and advertisements; by giving speeches before Congress and the
press; and by appearing on television and radio shows..."

This lawsuit was filed because the FDA has been spending millions of taxpayer
dollars on a criminal "investigation" to stop plaintiffs from criticizing
FDA policies and practices.  The Life Extension Foundation has been the
FDA's severist critic for the past ten years.  The Foundation has documented
perjury and violations of the U.S. Constitution by FDA officials, and has
shown how FDA incompetence and corruption has caused the needless suffering
and premature death of millions of Americans!

The FDA has been trying to silence The Foundation with threats of indictment
and jailing its leaders, even though the FDA has yet to present a shred of
evidence that The Foundation has ever harmed anyone!

In fact, The Foundation has donated half a million dollars for scientific
research to improve the quality of life for older Americans, and provides
invaluable information to its members about the latest biomedical
breakthroughs, and the best available methods known to science to prevent
and treat the diseases of aging.

The Foundation has already won the first of its lawsuits against the FDA.
On Oct. 1, 1991, Judge James C. Paine signed a Court Order granting The
Life Extension Foundation the return of all its property, which had been
seized by the FDA in an illegal raid of The Foundation's premises on
Feb. 26, 1987.

The Foundation believes that food and dietary supplement companies should
have the right to make accurate health claims for their products based upon
the findings of scientific studies without prior approval by the FDA!
On Aug. 29, 1991, Foundation President Saul Kent testified at a hearing of
the FDA Task Force On Dietary Supplements that, because of the FDA's long
history of bias against dietary supplements, the authority to regulate
dietary supplements should be moved from the FDA to the U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture (USDA). Copies of Mr. Kent's testimony are available upon request.

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