From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:48 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,
 
hello.  i am a college student and have had the luxury of being surrounded 
 in an information rich environment for quite some time, allowing me to 
keep up to date on many of the issues surrounding GE foods.  i will say 
that i am strongly AGAINST any voluntary food labeling.  i don't 
understand the purpose of making a process "voluntary" under law.  who 
would abide or choose to label their foods as "irradiated" when that would 
administer a blatant deterrent to that food item and a lowering in profits 
for the company producing that particular food item.  it just doesn't make 
sense to me that we as consumers would not have the liberty to choose what 
foods to eat and what companies to support.  afterall, we truly do not 
know the impacts of GE foods and thus far many studies have shown the 
danger that they pose on the environment and on people's health, even 
though this has not been directly attributed to cancer or immune deficient 
patients.  i can only hope that you truly care about our scarce resources 
(which may cause you to think that GE is the way to go) but we must be 
able to see ahead.  plenty of food now will not gaurantee viable soil for 
the future.  i hope that i will be able to trust food labels and have the 
liberty of choosing irradiated vs. non-irradiated foods.
in sincere concern,
regan nally

regan nally

olympia, wa, 98502

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Patty Murray
Senator Maria Cantwell
Representative Brian BairdFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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