From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 10:38 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,
 
Your proposed regulation are ridiculously short on requir-
ing rigorous testing for the safety of genetically modified
organisms.  

First, I must insist that foods containing GMO's be labeled
as such.  We the consumers, have a right to know what is in
our foods, and I do not for one second ASSUME that GMO's are
the same as conventional foods and therefore need no labeling.  On the 
 contrary, we need to know.  What if I have
a reaction to a certain GMO?  How am I going to know that it
could be the GMO if I don't know what's in the food?

And further, I am very concerned about the very real dangers
of "genetic leakage" and other reactive forces in nature which could 
further damage the environment.  Both of my grandparents were farmers, I 
grew up in farming country, and I am now a very active gardener.  What I 
know about plants and nature says "no, do not allow geneticaly modified 
plants into the environment without extremely rigorous testing, as in 10 
years or more for each plant, and tested under a wide variety of 
conditions.

Thank you for listening.

Sincerely,

Robert K. Funkhouser


Robert Funkhouser
2417 Vereda de Encanto
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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