From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 9:42 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, Room 1061
Rockville, MD 20852

RE: Docket No. 00N-1396, and 00D-1598

Dear Sir or Madam:
 
What does it take to make you understand? Your new policies on genetically 
 engineered foods are unacceptable. Despite overwhelming consumer demand, 
you still fail to require safety testing and mandatory labeling for GE 
foods. Your “notification” policy is an insult to consumers and 
irresponsibly ignores strong scientific evidence of numerous health and 
environmental risks from GE foods. GE foods have been shown to be toxic, 
cause allergic responses, possess lower nutritional value, compromise 
immune responses in consumers, and cause irreparable damage to the 
environment. 

Your “voluntary labeling” policy is preposterous--it favors industry and 
denies consumers a basic right to know what is in our food. We will also 
be deprived of information to hold food producers liable when the evidence 
that these monstrosities are hazardous becomes too great for anyone to 
ignore.

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 expect you to give preference to the public's 
concerns over industry's.


Yours truly,

Mark Lipsman

Mark Lipsman
38 Harvard Road
Littleton, MA, 01460

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Senator John F. Kerry
Representative Martin T. MeehanFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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