From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 9:52 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,
 
Genetically engineered (GE)foods are in no way safe, presentable, and 
 edible. Despite overwhelming consumer demand by sensible people the world 
over, safety testing and mandatory labeling for GE foods are still not 
required. This is an outrage. Your “notification” policy is an insult to 
consumers, and irresponsibly ignores strong scientific evidence of 
numerous potential health and environmental risks to GE foods. You should 
be aware that 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 strongly opposed to your new “voluntary labeling” policy, which 
denies consumers the basic right to know. Without mandatory labeling, 
consumers and health professionals will never 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.

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 will not accept your attempt to make me 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.
I hope that you will take my comments seriously, as this is a very serious 
matter.

Sincerely, 
     Carolyn Gonglefski



Carolyn Gonglefski
310 Walton
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Delegate Eleanor Holmes NortonFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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