From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:50 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,

Don't the citizens you supposedly serve have the right to 
A) know what they are eating and
B) choose whether to consume genetically engineered (GE)foods.

I gather that, despite significant consumer demand, you still don't plan to 
 introduce compulsory labelling of foods containing GE material. You know 
as well as I do that voluntary labelling is an unsatisfactory option.

If you don't change your ways you will find significant difficulties with 
exporting food products to the European Union countries, especially the 
United Kingdom.

Here in the UK we have compulsory labelling and I don't hear anyone 
complaining!

Sincerely,



ian hobbs
Chess House, Caxton Way
Watford, UK, WD18

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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