From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:32 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 outraged by your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods.We 
 have the right to know what we are putting in our mouths and our 
childrens mouths. If you see nothing wrong with Ge products than have them 
put labels on foods that contain GE foods. It seems odd to me that none of 
them are "Valenteering" to put this on their labels. This should tell you 
something. What are they trying to hide? Your “notification” policy is an 
insult to consumers, and irresponsibly ignores strong scientific evidence 
of numerous potential health and environmental risks to GE foods. You 
should be aware that these 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 cant imagine that you would put food in you own childrens mouth that 
could possibly harm them. Even if it is a minut chance that they could be 
effected by it wouldnt you want to know what these ingredients are before 
serving it to them. 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 your attempt to make 
me a guinea pig of these untested foods, and I trust you will take my 
concern along with the thousands of others into serious consideration.


Sincerely,



Nancy Anderson
130 woy circle
pinole, CA, 94564

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
Representative George Miller
Representative Ellen O. TauscherFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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