From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:31 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 “voluntary labeling” policy, which denies 
 consumers a basic right to know with regard to genetically engineered 
foods. 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 will also be deprived of the 
critical knowledge they need to hold food producers liable should any of 
these novel foods prove hazardous. Voluntary labeling leaves the asylum to 
the inmates. 

Secondly, insufficient testing could lead to serious health problems. 
Rigorous testing and the publication of those test results are vital to 
maintain the health of the public. Keeping these food giants honest with 
regard to their research is vital to maintain a healthy democracy. Please 
require testing and labelling of GE foods.


Sincerely,



Robert Manning
4612 NE 15th Avenue
Portland, OR, 97211

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


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