From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 11:34 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 write to express my outrage over your new policies on genetically 
 engineered (GE) foods. Despite overwhelming consumer demand, your agency 
still fails to require safety testing and mandatory labeling for GE foods. 
Your “notification” policy irresponsibly ignores strong scientific 
evidence of numerous potential health and environmental risks to GE foods. 
I am making food choices for an 18-month old child, and like all parents, 
I do not want him ingesting food that could be toxic, could cause allergic 
responses, could have lower nutrition value, could compromise immune 
responses, and could cause irreparable damage to the environment. 

I am also greatly opposed to 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 
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 the possibility that my family and I will 
unknowingly consume untested foods, and I trust you will take my concern, 
which I share with thousands of other consumers,  into serious 
consideration.


Sincerely,

Janet Ingraham Dwyer

Janet Ingraham Dwyer
145 E. Como Ave.
Columbus, OH, 43202

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


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