From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:19 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,
 
Please be aware of my intense anger over the failure of the FDA to respond 
 to consumer demands about the use of genetically modified crops.

It seems you have caved into the demands of industry rather than the 
consumer who is in fact your client.  You work for the consumer, not the 
producer.  Yet it seems that the consumer has been dismissed out of hand.  
It seems labelling and testing will not be mandatory.  This is like asking 
the tobacco companies to voluntarily label their product as harmful.  
Given that labels have to tell about ingredients why not have a mandatory 
law for gentetically engineered ingredients.  If genetically engineered 
products are so great then surely the producers will be proud to put 
genetically engineered on the product. 

Consumers have had to deal with a long list of problems that have arisen 
in food production.  They have had to campaign and lobby to protect 
themselves.  There is little trust in to-days consumer.  When their own 
last line of defence goes over to the other side they will simply have to 
take the expensive line taken with tobbacco companies.
They felt they could absorb the cost of lawsuits and were willing to lie.  
Unfortunately, food is not something we can just say no to.  It is up to 
the FDA to just say no to producers or to compel them to label their 
product so the consumer can just say no.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours truly,

Janet Chafe




janet chafe
716 Schneider St. NE
Canton, OH, 44721

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Mike DeWine
Senator George Voinovich
Representative Ralph RegulaFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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