From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 11:03 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 writing to express my opposition to the FDA's new proposed rules and 
 guidance on genetically engineered (GE) Foods. The agency's voluntary 
labeling and notification proposals are totally inadequate to protect 
human health, the environment, and my right to know. 

I am 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. Consumers will 
also be deprived of the critical knowledge they need to hold food 
producers liable should any of these novel foods prove hazardous.

I fully support the following:

All GE foods and food ingredients should be labeled so I am informed and 
have a choice.

GE foods should not be assumed to be safe and should be subject to 
mandatory pre-market safety testing.

There should be a moratorium on GE foods until long-term studies show they 
are safe for human health and the environment. 

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. 

Sincerely,



Marcella Recher
3624 Jasmine Ave
Rosamond, CA, 93560

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
Representative William M. ThomasFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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