From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 7:13 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,
 
Please reconsider your policy regarding genetically modified foods.  A 
 significant minority of the population has food allergies; it is hard 
enough to find things that are safe to eat without worrying whether one's 
food has had an allergen from another food introduced via genetic 
modification.

Corporations already warn people with phenylketonuria when foods are toxic 
to them.  Some foods contain warnings about nuts, for those who are 
allergic to them.  Why not extend those protections to those who are 
allergic to other foods, to let us know that the foods we are eating might 
be toxic to us?  We have a right to be fully informed about the food we 
eat, and I am appalled that the FDA does not recognize this.

Sincerely,

Mary E. Riley

Mary Riley
10623 Knollwood Court
Waldorf, MD, 20603

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Paul S. Sarbanes
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski
Representative Steny H. HoyerFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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