From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:23 AM
To: FDA Commissioner
Cc: president@whitehouse.gov; vice.president@whitehouse.gov;
fdadockets@oc.fda.gov; fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Oppose the New FDA Regulations on GE Foods!

FDA Commissioner Jane Henney
Dockets Management Branch (HFA 305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fisher's Lane, rm. 1061
Rockville, MD 20852

RE: Docket No. 00N-1396, and 00D-1598

Dear Ms. Henney,
 
I am outraged by your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods. 
 Despite overwhelming consumer demand, your agency still fails to require 
safety testing and mandatory labeling for GE foods. What's more, you 
“notification” policy is an insult to consumers that ignores strong 
scientific evidence of numerous potential health and environmental risks 
to GE foods. This comes on the heels of the recalls of a number of 
"fast-tracked" prescription drugs that wound up killing people. One gets 
the stong impression that public safety isn't the FDA's first concern.

I am also greatly opposed to your new “voluntary labeling” policy, which 
denies consumers a basic right to know. Since when don't we have the right 
to know what's in our food?

Your proposed rules are meant more to keep agribusiness happy than to 
protect the public you purportedly serve.

Sincerely,



Lisa James
316 Pacific St
Massapequa Park, NY, 11762

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Charles Schumer
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Representative Peter T. KingFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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