From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:43 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 consider revising the new policies on genetically engineered 
 (GE)foods. Safety testing and labelling really should be of concern to 
you and the FDA. People have a right to know what they are eating. Many GE 
foods could cause allergic reactions and for health and/or religious 
reasons some of the GE foods are inedible. People need to know what they 
are buying. Please consider changing the new rules.

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 do not wish 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. Thank you for your time.


Sincerely,
David Whitehouse
518 S. 13th Ave.
St. Charles, IL 60174


David Whitehouse
518 S. 13th Ave.
St. Charles, I, 60174

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Richard J. Durbin
Senator Peter Fitzgerald
Representative J. Dennis HastertFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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