TELL THE FDA THAT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS MUST BE LABELED AND TESTED FOR SAFETY! The Food and Drug Administration is now accepting public comment on its proposed new rules on genetically engineered (GE) foods. Despite overwhelming consumer demand, the FDA has failed to require health and ecological safety testing or mandatory labeling, and thus puts your health and our environment at risk and deprives you of the right to know or choose what you are eating. The proposed rules: * Do not require mandatory pre-market safety testing * Do not require pre-market environmental review * Do not require mandatory labeling of GE foods * Restrict voluntary labeling of non-GE foods * Require a mere letter of notification prior to the marketing of a GE food * Fail to ensure public access to adequate information for independent review * Are supported by industry and opposed by consumer groups The FDA needs to hear from hundreds of thousands of Americans that: * The FDA must require mandatory pre-market comprehensive environmental review. Unlike conventional pollutants, where a given amount of pollutant causes a limited amount of damage, a small number of mutant genes could have a population explosion and reproduce forever, causing unlimited and irreparable damage. * The FDA must require mandatory pre-market long-term health testing. GE products could be toxic, cause allergic responses, have lower nutritional value, and compromise immune responses in consumers. * The FDA must require mandatory labeling of GE products. 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 would be deprived of the critical knowledge needed to hold food producers liable should any of these novel products be hazardous. * The FDA must end its cozy relationship with the industries it purports to be regulating. People have been allowed to work for a biotech company, then work for the FDA writing the regulatory rules on that company's product, then go back to working for the company. Ninety-two percent of FDA advisory committee meetings had at least one conflict of interest. PLEASE ACT TODAY. THE DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS IS TUESDAY, APRIL 3. Email your comments to: fdadock...@oc.fda.gov with "Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598" in the Subject line Mail your comments to: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598 Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061 Rockville, MD 20852 For more information: www.organicconsumers.org , 218-226-4164 *** ATTENTION: You are receiving this email because you requested to be included on our news flash list. If you'd like to remove yourself from this list, please see the instructions below. We respect your electronic privacy and will NOT give out or sell your email address under any circumstances. ================================================================ For more information, please visit the Natural Law Party website at: http://www.natural-law.org, or the John Hagelin website at: http://www.hagelin.org We would like our email postings to reach as many supporters as possible. Please encourage your friends to subscribe so we can quickly publicize late-breaking news through a powerful national email network. To subscribe, please visit http://www.natural-law.org/signup.html. To automatically unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to unsubscr...@natural-law.org. (No message is necessary.) This message was sent from an automated Natural Law Party mail server. ================================================================ -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
