From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:08 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 fully support the approval of genetically engineered (GE)foods. Please 
 fast track this important issue so that consumers can begin to reap the 
benefits of such technology.

Despite the scare tactics of overzealous consumer groups, these foods are 
greatly needed and represent a tremendous human advancement.

The opponents of these foods don't have one single shred of evidence to 
support any of their claims.  Instead they say these foods "could" cause 
allergic reactions, "could" have lower nutritional values, etc.

It is precisely this rhetoric that ruins the validity of public opinion 
polls on these matters.

People think this stuff is bad for you, when there is no evidence 
whatsoever to indicate that.

The rules requiring notificaiton are sufficient.  In our marketplace, 
consumers should be allowed to have the final say on what is good for 
them.  If there is no demand for these products, they will go away.

But, people will find, they are needed and useful and should be allowed to 
be introduced.


Sincerely,


Mark E. Kulda

Mark Kulda
4648 Maryland Ave. North
Crystal, MN, 55428

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Paul Wellstone
Senator Mark Dayton
Representative Jim Ramstad
Representative Martin Olav SaboFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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