From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:17 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 am outraged by your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods. 
 Despite overwhelming consumer demand, your agency still fails to require 
mandatory labeling for GE foods.  

Although I am not a religious person in the normal sense of the word, I am 
morally opposed to genetic modification of agricultural products and feel 
offended by scientific curiousity that has led to "tampering" with nature.

I am greatly opposed to your new "voluntary labeling" policy, which denies 
consumers a basic right to know. 

Your proposed rules ignore consumer concerns, and appear to be a decision 
made to convenience industry.  I trust you will take my concern along with 
the thousands of others into serious consideration.


Sincerely,

Whitney Leeman
PhD Candidate
UC Davis


Whitney Leeman
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CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
Representative Robert T. MatsuiFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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