Anti-GM protesters kept from tearing up wheat crop by police

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35. Nice summary of absence of consensus among FDA scientists described in 2001 legal brief at link.

http://www.purefood.org/gefood/fdasued.cfm

Legal & Scientific Critique of FDA's "No Labeling, No SafetyTesting" Policy on GE Foods

This public comment letter on the FDA's proposed regulation of GMOs is a
must read. Please pass it on to anyone interested in the GMO issue.
Druker is an attorney who filed a public interest lawsuit against the FDA
over lack of safety regulations, phony substantial equivalance and other
unfounded regulations. People need to know just how biotech foods got
regulatory approval. It's shocking!

Comments prepared by Steven M. Druker, Executive Director [Alliance for
Bio-Integrity]

2 May 2001

[Docket No. 00N-1396]
Dockets Management Branch [HFA-305]
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane
Room 1061
Rockville, MD 20852

To Whom It May Concern:

The Alliance for Bio-Integrity (ABI) provides the following comments
in response to the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and
Drug Administration's ("FDA&quot "Premarket Notice Concerning
Bioengineered Foods" 66 Fed. Reg. 4706 (January 18, 2001).

In submitting these comments, the Alliance for Bio-Integrity
incorporates by reference all documents submitted to the District
Court and the FDA (including the complaint, legal briefs, and
declarations) and all the assertions made therein, as well as the
administrative record provided by the FDA, in the case of Alliance
for Bio-Integrity, et al, v. Shalala, et al, Docket No. 98-1300 (CKK)
(filed May 27, 1998).

More specifically, ABI finds the new FDA proposal to be not only
inadequate and contrary to the best scientific knowledge, but (a)
contrary to the clear intent of U.S. law and (b) based on
misrepresentation. Further, ABI maintains that a full consideration
of the evidence makes it difficult to believe that these
misrepresentations are innocent mistakes but instead strongly
indicates they are fraudulent and are part of a calculated,
systematic endeavor to deceive Congress and the American people about
the potential health hazards of bioengineered foods (commonly
referred to as "genetically engineered" or "GE" foods). This
statement is not made lightly but is based on thorough knowledge of
the facts, and it is prompted by a belief that such behavior on the
part of the agency entrusted with assuring the safety of the nation's
food must be clearly categorized as wrong, directly confronted, and
promptly corrected.

The following paragraphs explain in detail why the FDA's behavior in
permitting the marketing of bioengineered foods is so unscientific,
unethical, and unacceptable - and why the proposed regulations must
be withdrawn and every bioengineered food withheld from the market
until proper testing has confirmed it is safe according to the
standard required by law...