From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:52 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 strongly oppose your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods. 
 Your “notification” policy irresponsibly ignores strong scientific 
evidence about the numerous potential health and environmental risks with 
respect to GE foods. 

I also oppose your new “voluntary labeling” policy. 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.

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.  Please respect my concerns and the concerns of thousands of 
others by creating policies that actually protect consumers.

Sincerely,



Cynthia Hagen
1240 Evelyn Ave.
Berkeley, CA, 94706

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


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