From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 1:33 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 deeply concerned about the FDA policies on genetically engineered 
 foods.  Many people share this concern, and I appreciate your hearing our 
opinions until April 3rd.  

Without further testing, GE foods could be very harmful, not only to 
individual people who have adverse reactions to these engineered foods, 
but could also result in serious disturbance of environmental ecology, in 
which one organism depends upon another for survival.  I can imagine that 
perhaps when these engineered foods have been further tested we might feel 
informed more adequately to make decisions about eating them and releasing 
such foods into the environment.

"Voluntary labeling” is a very weak policy, which ignores the consumer's 
right to know.  The same value we find in having ingredients or 
percentages of ingredients listed on many foods is not .  I want to know 
what kind of foods I am buying, and I ask that labeling of GE foods be 
required to indicate they are GE.  This is fair consumer practice and also 
critical for medical reasons.

Thank you for paying attention to the many people who are concerned we are 
on the brink of another "silent spring."

Sincerely,
Judith Parker, Ph.D.



Judith Parker
908 Mercer Street
Fredericksburg, VA, 22401

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator John W. Warner
Senator George Allen
Representative Jo Ann S. DavisFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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