From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 1:08 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 opposed to the proposed rules, which fall far short of what is needed 
 to protect our food supply.

So-called “voluntary labeling” denies consumers a basic right to know. 
Without mandatory labeling, I cannot know if I am unwittingly consuming 
genetically modified food stuffs which I choose not to eat; e.g., as a 
vegetarian, for reasons of health, I prefer not to eat meat or animal 
products.  Your failure to require labels for genetically engineered and 
modified foods will not allow me to make an informed choice of what I wish 
to eat.



Sincerely,


Leonard E. Sienko, Jr.
The Sienko Law Office
12 East Main Street
P.O. Box 579
Hancock, New York 13783
607-637-5400
lennyesq@hancock.net


Leonard E. Sienko, Jr.
12 East Main Street
Hancock, NY, 13783

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Charles Schumer
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Representative Maurice D. HincheyFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 
00D-1598]


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