From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 10:59 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 not satisfied with your new policies on genetically engineered 
 (GE)foods. Despite consumer demand, your agency still fails to require 
safety testing and mandatory labeling for GE foods. Your notification 
policy is not acceptable to me and other consumers, and ignores scientific 
evidence of 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 am also greatly 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.

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 trust you will take my concern along with the thousands of 
others into serious consideration. While I am not opposed to sensible 
progress in the effort to provide quality food to a growing population, I 
want this progress to include a thoughtful evaluation of the consequences 
of "tinkering with nature." Please make absolutely sure that you have 
evaluated this issue carefully, so that we can be safe and trust the food 
we eat.

Thank you.


Sincerely,

Adelaide McLean



Adelaide McLean
1805 Barry Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, 90025

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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