Food & Water Watch

Keep genetically engineered animals off the dinner plate!

The Food and Drug Administration recently released its draft plan for approving animals that are genetically engineered to grow faster, produce more milk, or even produce drugs in their tissues. To make matters worse, the FDA is not requiring that food from GE animals be labeled, so consumers won?t know if the food they buy for their families was produced with this controversial technology.

Tell FDA to ban the use of genetically engineered animals for food.

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September 02, 2010

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To Whom it May Concern:

I am writing to comment on Docket No. FDA-2008-D-0394, "Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Containing Heritable rDNA Constructs." I urge you not to approve the use of genetically engineered animals for food.  But if the approval of GE animals moves forward, there are significant changes that should be made in the way FDA will regulate this questionable technology:

- FDA must require labeling of food products from all genetically engineered animals. Consumers deserve to know if they are buying food produced with technology that they may want to avoid.

- FDA must establish an open, transparent, and participatory review process of any genetically engineered animals.  The current drug approval process that FDA proposes to use for GE animals is too secretive for something as unproven and poorly understood as genetically engineering animals.

- FDA must include a meaningful consideration of the ethical implications and environmental impacts of genetically engineering animals.  The refusal of the agency to consider these impacts of a new and controversial process like genetic engineering is inexcusable and makes approval of these animals premature.

I also believe that FDA should give the public more time to weigh in on something as critical as their plan for approving GE animals.  I urge you to extend the comment period for at least another 60 days.

Sincerely,

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