From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:46 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 appalled at the proposed changes you are considering to your new 
 policy on genetically engineered (GE)foods. I have written in the past, 
as I understand have hundreds of thousands of others, yet despite 
overwhelming consumer demand, your agency still fails to require safety 
testing and mandatory labeling for GE foods. I do not trust this new 
technology and feel that your actions are irresponsible.  You are a public 
servant, which means that you can not and should not ignore the public or 
the strong scientific evidence of numerous potential health and 
environmental risks to GE foods. 

I am also greatly opposed to your new “voluntary labeling” policy, which 
denies consumers a basic right to know. 

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,

Denise Trochei

Denise Trochei
2125 Avenida de las Alturas
Santa Fe, NM, 87505

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Pete V. Domenici
Senator Jeff Bingaman
Representative Thomas UdallFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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