{"id":4882,"date":"2010-03-12T22:18:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T06:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2010-03-12T22:18:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T06:18:46","slug":"jimturner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2010\/03\/12\/jimturner\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Jim Turner discusses the Congressional battle over health freedom rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s program, Jim Turner and Dr. Robin Falkov discuss the adverse ramifications of the McCain Dorgin bill (S. 3002) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/bill\/111-h2749\/show\">Food Safety Enhancement Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>James S. Turner is Chairman of the Board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizens.org\/\">Citizens for Health<\/a> and a principal in the law firm of Swankin &#038; Turner who specializes in food, drug, environmental, health, and product-safety cases. Throughout his career, Mr. Turner has been diligently protecting the public&#8217;s right to have access to life-saving medical devices and information.<\/p>\n<p>He 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 recently served as 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.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s program, Jim Turner and Dr. Robin Falkov discuss the adverse ramifications of the McCain Dorgin bill (S. 3002) and the Food Safety Enhancement Act.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,13,39,12],"tags":[2077,179,810,2076,1431,2074,2075,2079,2078],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}