From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 3:16 AM
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 concerned by your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods. I 
 would like the FDA to require safety testing and mandatory labeling for 
GE foods. Your “notification” policy does not go far enough, and appears 
to ignore strong scientific evidence of numerous potential health and 
environmental risks to GE foods. 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 concerned about 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 
could also be deprived of the critical knowledge they need to hold food 
producers liable should any of these foods prove hazardous.


Sincerely,
James D. Carpenter


Jim Carpenter
P.O. Box 11079
Eugene, OR, 97440

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Ron Wyden
Senator Gordon Smith
Representative Peter A. DeFazioFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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