<div><div style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Dear Friends,</span><br>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">I’m writing to you to ask for your support for the proposed Alameda County Safe Drug Disposal Ordinance. This ordinance will hold producers responsible for creating a program to dispose of unwanted and expired drugs that is convenient, free, and available county-wide. The safe and proper disposal of unneeded medications will reduce the incidents of illnesses and deaths caused by accidental poisonings, decrease access and availability of drugs to youth, and ensure that excess drugs don’t end up in our landfills and ground water.</span><br>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Safe disposal of pharmaceuticals is a shared societal burden, the costs of which should not fall on local government which does not profit from the sale of pharmaceuticals. Like other products such as auto batteries, paint and carpets whose manufacturers have taken responsibility for end of life and residual product management, we believe pharmaceutical manufacturers should be responsible for designing and funding programs for the disposal of their unused products. You can download the Ordinance at: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://castrovalley.patch.com/articles/final-draft-of-county-wide-drug-disposal-ordinance" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://castrovalley.patch.com/articles/final-draft-of-county-wide-drug-dispo<br>
sal-ordinance</a></span><br>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial">Please join us in supporting the Safe Drug Disposal Ordinance by sending in a letter to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">(sample letter attached). </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial">The Ordinance will go before the Board on February 28, 2012 </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">(please send in your letter before then). If you would like to come to the Board meeting to show your support it will be on:</span><br>

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</span></b></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal">Feb 28, 2012 at 10:30am</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">The Alameda County Board of Supervisors</span><br>

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<div style="background-color:transparent"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>Thank you,</span></font></div></div><div style="background-color:transparent">
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Evin</span></font></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></font></div><br clear="all">Evin Guy<br>Program Manager, Teleosis Institute <br><a href="http://www.teleosis.org/" target="_blank">www.teleosis.org</a> | <a href="mailto:evin@teleosis.org" target="_blank">evin@teleosis.org</a> | <a href="tel:510-558-7285%20x104" value="+15105587285" target="_blank">510-558-7285 x104</a> <br>