From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 11:31 PM
To: FDA Commissioner
Cc: president@whitehouse.gov; vice.president@whitehouse.gov;
fdadockets@oc.fda.gov; fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Oppose the FDAs New Regulations on GE Foods!!

FDA Commissioner Jane Henney
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 Ms. Henney,
 
I am outraged by your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods. 
 What part of "we don't want to eat GE foods" don't you people understand? 
Unless manufacturers are required by law to tell us, we are their helpless 
human guinea pigs. This is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!! You are being paid to 
protect us, not sell us out to big money.

Despite overwhelming consumer demand, your agency still fails to require 
safety testing and mandatory labeling for GE foods. Your notification 
policy is an insult to consumers, and irresponsibly ignores strong 
scientific evidence of numerous potential health and environmental risks 
to GE foods. You should be aware that these foods could be toxic, could 
cause allergic responses, could have lower nutrition value, could 
compromise immune responses in consumers, and could cause irreparable 
damage to the environment. 

I am also 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.

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. I will not accept your attempt to make me a guinea pig of 
these untested foods, and I trust you will take my concern along with the 
thousands of others into serious consideration.

This is not being unfair to the manufacturers at all. If these companies 
want to sell GE products, they should be required to let us know in BIG, 
BOLD LETTERS!

Sincerely,

Samantha McTighe
1620 San Luis Rey Ave.
Vista, CA 92084

Samantha McTighe
1620 San Luis Rey Ave.
Vista, CA, 92084

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
Representative Darrell Issa
Representative Randy (Duke) CunninghamFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 
00D-1598]

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