From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 9:22 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. 
 Despite overwhelming consumer demand, your agency still fails to require 
safety testing and mandatory labeling for GE foods. Your “notification” 
policy is an insult to consumers, and irresponsibly ignores strong 
scientific evidence of numerous potential health and environmental risks 
to GE foods. 

I am also greatly opposed and will be personally affected by your new 
“voluntary labeling” policy, which denies consumers a basic right to know. 
I demand to know exactly what I eat, and if I get sick from eating food 
that was not properly labled, I may be persuaded to hold the FDA 
personally responsible.

Please take my concern seriously.  Proper and mandatory food labeling will 
enable persons to make informed decisions about one of life's basic 
requirements, food.

Sincerely,

Michael Oldeck



Michael Oldeck
1
Clinton, MI, 49236

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Carl Levin
Senator Debbie A. Stabenow
Representative Nick SmithFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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