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Update: 25 Groups Urge Obama to Deny GE Salmon Approval
(San Francisco) The hearings to consider approval of AquaBounty's AquAdvantage genetically engineered Atlantic salmon begin at FDA's headquarters in Rockville, MD on Sunday September 19 through September 20, according to Marie Logan at Food & Water Watch in an update on September 17. Then on September 21, the FDA (rather pre-emptively) is planning to discuss the labeling for this fish. Food & Water Watch staff and a host of other organizations in the coalition will be providing public comment at these meetings, so stay tuned for more from this front. A coalition of 25 fishing and salmon organizations, representing fishermen and women across North America, wrote a letter to the administration on September 16 to express their opposition to the approval of AquaBounty’s genetically engineered salmon. "Meanwhile, KPIX (CBS-5) came out to the Aquarium of the Bay yesterday to capture some footage of the national day of action that we hosted to flood the White House switchboard with requests to President Obama to stop FDA's approval process for GE salmon," said Logan. "They took some great shots of the inflatable salmon, interviewed Tina Swanson of the Bay Institute on the environmental implications of this engineered fish and caught some of our petitioning in the act at the Embarcadero Farmers' Market." On a similar note, check out a blog recently written by the Western Region director, Elanor Starmer, on CA salmon and how they might be affected by GE fish: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/estarmer/detail?entry_id=72570. Finally - check out the new FrankenFish video on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4UmPcNcrqw. Below is the letter from coalition of 25 fishing groups sent yesterday to the Obama administration:
(San Francisco) The hearings to consider approval of AquaBounty's AquAdvantage genetically engineered Atlantic salmon begin at FDA's headquarters in Rockville, MD on Sunday September 19 through September 20, according to Marie Logan at Food & Water Watch in an update on September 17. Then on September 21, the FDA (rather pre-emptively) is planning to discuss the labeling for this fish. Food & Water Watch staff and a host of other organizations in the coalition will be providing public comment at these meetings, so stay tuned for more from this front. A coalition of 25 fishing and salmon organizations, representing fishermen and women across North America, wrote a letter to the administration on September 16 to express their opposition to the approval of AquaBounty’s genetically engineered salmon. "Meanwhile, KPIX (CBS-5) came out to the Aquarium of the Bay yesterday to capture some footage of the national day of action that we hosted to flood the White House switchboard with requests to President Obama to stop FDA's approval process for GE salmon," said Logan. "They took some great shots of the inflatable salmon, interviewed Tina Swanson of the Bay Institute on the environmental implications of this engineered fish and caught some of our petitioning in the act at the Embarcadero Farmers' Market." On a similar note, check out a blog recently written by the Western Region director, Elanor Starmer, on CA salmon and how they might be affected by GE fish: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/estarmer/detail?entry_id=72570. Finally - check out the new FrankenFish video on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4UmPcNcrqw. Below is the letter from coalition of 25 fishing groups sent yesterday to the Obama administration:
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