From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 10:18 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,
 
I am very pleased by your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods. 
 Despite demand by a few, extreme, political action groups, your agency 
has stood firm in its science based decisions on the issues of safety 
testing and labeling for GE foods. Your “notification” policy is entirely 
appropriate, and is consistent with strong scientific evidence of few and 
inconsequential health and environmental risks from GE foods.

I am also greatly in favor of your new “voluntary labeling” policy.  
Labeling would provide consumers with no subtantial information regarding 
the health and safety of these products, unless the labels specified all 
the benefits of the technology, and would likely be used by extremist 
groups to drum up further opposition to genetically engineered food.

I completely applaude your current actions, and I trust you will take my 
thoughts into serious consideration.


Sincerely,

David R. Corbin



David Corbin
14453 Brittania Drive
Chesterfield, MO, 63017

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Christopher S. Bond
Senator Jean Carnahan
Representative Todd AkinFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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