<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Comments from Don Kasarda, Albany, California I have read the posting by Herb Bolz on the FDA and the follow-up postings by AMS and Jim Barron. I strongly support the views expressed by Herb Bolz and consider them well balanced and reasonable. As someone who has worked as a scientist in private industry (Du Pont, the old AT&T Bell Labs), at the University of California, and for a long time as a government scientist with the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, I would say that the FDA is an outstanding agency, one that functions better than most (conservative adjective) private companies, and that Dr. Kessler is an outstanding director. We are all are quite fortunate to have this organization protecting us. It isn't perfect--I haven't seen an organization that is--but I think the insulting comments about FDA employees by AMS are highly unwarranted. My personal feeling is that we need to seek balance and reason in our views, and that the approaches recommended by AMS and Jim Barron will achieve little for celiac patients in the long run.