From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:44 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 deeply dismayed at the Food and Drug Administration's
(FDA) proposed regulations on the labeling of genetically
engineered (GE) foods.  While it may be true that there is
some potential in GE foods, their safety and efficacy has
not been adequately demonstrated.  The new rules are clearly
favoring the manufacturers at the expense of American
taxpayers and consumers.

The voluntary labeling rules deny the consumer of our basic
right to know what we are eating.  Our family reads the
ingredients label for every article of food we purchase in
order to know item's nutritional content, and we appreciate
very much the level of detail which the FDA has required.
To withdraw from this position, which the FDA has so
rigorously enforced over the last several years, sends the
message that the FDA no longer cares about the American
people and is willing to have them be guinea pigs for
manufacturers whose primary concern is profit, not health.
Every other civilized nation in the world has safety rules
about GE foods, and these regulations would not only
jeopardize the health and well being of American citizens,
but would also make our trading partners think twice about
remaining so.

I urge in the strongest terms that the FDS not pass these
rules into law.


Sincerely,

Caleb T. Deupree

Caleb T. Deupree
1242 E. Lytle-5 Points Road
Dayton, OH, 45458

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Mike DeWine
Senator George Voinovich
Representative Rob Portman
Representative Tony P. HallFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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