From: Theodore M. Booth [tedbooth@mind.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 1:27 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

I agree with the views expressed below.

Theodore M. Booth, PhD
2305C Ashland St # 436
Ashland OR 97520
(541) 482-5231

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ReasonToVote" <ReasonToVote@Hagelin.org>
To: "Reasontovote List Member" <Reasontovote@natural-law.mail>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 14:53 PM
Subject: GE Alert--Apr. 3 Deadline


> 
> 
> NATURAL LAW PARTY NEWS FLASH!
> 
> 
> TELL THE FDA THAT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS 
> MUST BE LABELED AND TESTED FOR SAFETY!
> 
> The Food and Drug Administration is now accepting public 
> comment on its proposed new rules on genetically engineered 
> (GE) foods.  Despite overwhelming consumer demand, the FDA
> has failed to require health and ecological safety testing 
> or mandatory labeling, and thus puts your health and our 
> environment at risk and deprives you of the right to know 
> or choose what you are eating.
> 
> The proposed rules:
> 
> * Do not require mandatory pre-market safety testing
> * Do not require pre-market environmental review
> * Do not require mandatory labeling of GE foods
> * Restrict voluntary labeling of non-GE foods
> * Require a mere letter of notification prior to the 
>   marketing of a GE food
> * Fail to ensure public access to adequate information 
>   for independent review
> * Are supported by industry and opposed by consumer groups
> 
> The FDA needs to hear from hundreds of thousands of Americans 
> that:
> 
> * The FDA must require mandatory pre-market comprehensive 
>   environmental review. Unlike conventional pollutants, 
>   where a given amount of pollutant causes a limited amount 
>   of damage, a small number of mutant genes could have a 
>   population explosion and reproduce forever, causing 
>   unlimited and irreparable damage.
> 
> * The FDA must require mandatory pre-market long-term health 
>   testing. GE products could be toxic, cause allergic 
>   responses, have lower nutritional value, and compromise 
>   immune responses in consumers.
> 
> * The FDA must require mandatory labeling of GE products. 
>   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 
>   would be deprived of the critical knowledge needed to hold 
>   food producers liable should any of these novel products 
>   be hazardous.
> 
> * The FDA must end its cozy relationship with the industries
>   it purports to be regulating. People have been allowed to 
>   work for a biotech company, then work for the FDA writing the 
>   regulatory rules on that company's product, then go back to
>   working for the company.  Ninety-two percent of FDA advisory 
>   committee meetings had at least one conflict of interest.
> 
> PLEASE ACT TODAY. THE DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS IS TUESDAY, APRIL 3.
> 
> Email your comments to: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
>   with "Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598" in the Subject line
> 
> Mail your comments to:
>    Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598
>    Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)
>    Food and Drug Administration
>    5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061
>    Rockville, MD 20852
> 
> For more information: www.organicconsumers.org , 218-226-4164
> 
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