From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:08 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 am not outraged by your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods. 
 Despite underwhelming consumer demand, your agency still fails to require 
ridiculous safety testing and unwanted mandatory labeling for GE foods. 
Your “notification” policy is an insult to consumers, and irresponsibly 
ignores the lack of scientific evidence of numerous potential health and 
environmental risks to GE foods. You should be aware that these foods have 
never been found to be toxic, or cause allergic responses, or of lower 
nutrition value, and are highly unlikely to compromise immune responses in 
consumers, and could not cause irreparable damage to the environment. 

I am also greatly opposed to your new “voluntary labeling” policy, which 
denies consumers a basic right to be frightened by extremist groups. 
Without mandatory labeling, neither consumers nor health professionals 
will know if they have an opportunity to sue someone over an imaginary 
allergic or toxic reaction that might be blamed on 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 concerns of the ignorant and freightened, and 
appear to be a decision made to convenience industry at the expense of 
scaring the public with half truths and baseless scare stories.  

Sincerely,

Dan Scott

Dan Scott
185 mtn charlie rd
Scotts Valley, ca, 95066

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
Representative Mike Honda
Representative Sam FarrFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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