From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:14 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

Dear FDA,
 
I am concerned by 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. Such engineered foods 
could be toxic, could cause allergic responses, could have lower nutrition 
value, could compromise immune responses in consumers, and could cause 
irreparable damage to the environment. 

I am also extremely opposed to your new voluntary labeling policy, which 
denies consumers a basic right to know what they are eating. Without 
mandatory labeling, neither consumers nor health professionals will know 
if allergic or toxic reactions are the result of genetically engineered 
foods. Consumers will also be deprived of the critical knowledge they need 
to hold food producers liable should any of these engineered 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. It is my hope that you will take my concern along with the 
thousands of others into serious consideration.


Sincerely,

Myste Koltun

myste koltun
420 California Ave
Santa Monica, CA, 90403

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
Representative Henry A. WaxmanFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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