From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 12:49 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


FDA Commissioner:

My family and I are opposed to your new “voluntary labeling” policy, which 
 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.

Consumers have the right to know which foods are genetically-altered;  we 
also have the right to choose. If these foods are so "safe", then you 
should have no hesitation to proudly require their labeling. It is our 
opinion that you are denying the consumers' right to know, and that you 
are providing a pathway for the withholding of information consumers 
should have.

Sincerely,

Frances O'Brien

Frances O'Brien
P.O. Box 12
Lake Oswego, OR, 97034

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Ron Wyden
Senator Gordon Smith
Representative David Wu
Representative Earl Blumenauer
Representative Darlene HooleyFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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