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James
S. Turner
1400 16th Street,
NW, Suite 101, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 462-8800
Fax: (202) 265-6564
E-mail: jim@swankin-turner.com
James S. Turner,
a principal in the firm, represents businesses as well as individuals and
consumer groups in a wide variety of regulatory matters concerning food,
drug, health, environmental and product-safety matters. He has appeared
before every major consumer regulatory agency, including the Food and Drug
Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Consumer Product Safety
Commission and Federal Trade Commission, as well as the Department of Agriculture
and the National Institutes of Health. Mr. Turner has served as special
counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Food, Nutrition, and Health and
to the Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Research.
He has also been a policy consultant to major corporations in the food,
pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries, including such companies
as Kraft Foods, The Quaker Oats Company, Hoffmann-LaRoche and AT&T.
Recently Mr. Turner was the lead attorney on a successful petition to the
FDA to reclassify acupuncture needles from Class III to Class II medical
devices, permitting their legal importation and distribution. He is a graduate
of The Ohio State University School of Law.
Articles and speeches
by Jim
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Adam Smith Without Arrogance
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Jefferson's Flaws: Are They Beyond
Redemption?
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FDA and The Nutrition Community,
Past, Present and Future…
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Dietary Supplements -- Health Care
Reform and The Congress
Articles about Jim
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Megatrends, by John Naisbitt
Organizations Jim is affiliated with
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Aspartame Consumer Safety Network's
NutraMancer City
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Citizens for Health
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