From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:28 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 
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 FDA,
 
I would like to express my concern regarding genetically engineered 
 (GE)foods. Despite overwhelming consumer demand, your agency still fails 
to require safety testing and mandatory labeling for GE foods.  I am 
concerned 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. 
There have been several instances of "accidents" with companies that 
manufacture GE products like the recent StarLink fiasco.  These companies 
have proven they are not competent to be responsible for potentially 
dangerous experiments.
We cannot afford to gamble with the future like this.  With organic 
farming methods we can meet the planets food requirements without playing 
with the very make up of life.  History will look back on the decisions we 
make today.  Will they say "This is where they screwed up." or "These 
people had the integrity to stand firm against big business and protected 
the rights of the citizens that they promised to serve."
I do not want to be a guinea pig of these untested foods, and I trust you 
will take my concern along with the thousands of others into serious 
consideration.


Sincerely,

Wayne Porter


Wayne Porter
605 Engman Street
Clearwater, FL, 33755

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Bob Graham
Senator Bill Nelson
Representative Michael BilirakisFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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