From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:30 AM
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 (with an added note to Mr. Bush about 
 CO2)

Dear FDA,
 
I find your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods alarming. 
Despite overwhelming consumer demand, your agency still fails 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 potential health and environmental risks 
to GE foods. 

“Voluntary labeling” policy--you're joking, right? This 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. Were you or were you not set up to protect the public? I 
trust you will take my concerns along with the thousands of others into 
serious consideration. 


Sincerely,
Jeanne Lamy

PS. President Bush, please look at the levels of CO2 compared to what our 
urban lack of green tree spaces are able to recycle into oxygen via 
photosynthesis.
CO2 is a natural pollutant that is not a problem as long as the balance is 
maintained. It won't be.


Jeanne Lamy
10638 Shermoor
Baton Rouge, LA, 70815

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator John B. Breaux
Senator Mary Landrieu
Representative Richard H. BakerFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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