   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES default		         		Public
Health Service

 ADVANCE \r360  ADVANCE \d3 	Food and Drug Administration

 ADVANCE \r360 	Rockville, MD  20857

May 19, 2006

Michael Patterson

1866 Castleway Lane

Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4016

Dear Mr.  Patterson:

Your petition requesting the Food and Drug Administration to take action
to stop Lasik due to the use of research from experiments conducted on
human beings without a proper basis to believe it is in the patients'
best interests and improper patient informed consent, was received by
this office on 05/16/2006.  It was assigned docket number 2006P-0212/CP
1 and it was filed on 05/17/2006.  Please refer to this docket number in
future correspondence on this subject with the Agency.

Please note that the acceptance of the petition for filing is a
procedural matter in that it in no way reflects an agency decision on
the substantive merits of the petition.

Sincerely

Lyle D. Jaffe

Division of dockets Management

Office of Management Programs

Office of Management



                  

