James S. Turner, a principal in the Washington, D.D. law firm, Swankin & Turner, 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. He has served as Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Food, Nutrition, and Health, and to the U.S. Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Research. Author of the now-classic book The Chemical Feast, 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. He was the lead attorney on a successful petition to the FDA to reclassify acupuncture needles from Class III to Class II medical devices, thereby permitting their legal importation and distribution. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University School of Law.
James has appeared on Integral Naked:
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The Integral-Political Imperative. Part 3. A Trans-Partisan Vision for America. • 4/14/2008 |
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The Integral-Political Imperative. Part 2. Jefferson and Hamilton in the Modern World (And Why it Matters to You!) • 2/11/2008 |
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The Integral-Political Imperative. Part 1. The Nader Years. • 12/10/2007 |
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