From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:50 PM
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 the mother of a four year old child with HIV.  I go out of my way to 
 assure that only the finest and purest of products enter his body, 
therefore, I am outraged by your policy on genetically engineered foods.  
I do not want someone deciding for me what is safe to feed my family.

 Your “notification” policy is an insult to consumers, and irresponsibly 
ignores strong scientific evidence of numerous potential health and 
environmental risks to GE foods. You should be aware that these foods 
could be toxic, could cause allergic responses, could have lower nutrition 
value, could compromise immune responses in consumers, and could cause 
irreparable damage to the environment. 

I am also greatly opposed to your new “voluntary labeling” policy, which 
denies consumers a basic right to know. Without mandatory labeling, 
neither consumers nor health professionals will know if an allergic or 
toxic reaction was the result of a genetically engineered food. Consumers 
will also be deprived of the critical knowledge they need to hold food 
producers liable should any of these novel foods prove hazardous.

Your proposed rules ignore serious concerns, and appear to be a decision 
made to convenience industry at the expense of public health and the 
environment. I will not accept your attempt to make me a guinea pig of 
these untested foods, and I trust you will take my concern along with the 
thousands of others into serious consideration.

When I saw a list of products that already contain GE foods, I felt 
betrayed by an agency that was designed to protect us.  Please reconsider 
your position on this very important issue.


Sincerely,
Catherine A. Lozeau, M.A., RN


Catherine Lozeau
5 Highland Ave.
Lincoln, RI, 02865

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Jack Reed
Senator Lincoln D. Chafee
Representative Patrick J. KennedyFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 
00D-1598]


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