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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:30:47 +0100
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From: Jaan Suurkula <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: PSRAST Important message about letters to governments
Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and
Technology (PSRAST)
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PSRAST MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS
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OPEN LETTERS TO GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE
Dear member,
We are now launching an open letter to governments worldwide. We
invite you who are a physician or scientist to sign it. We would
greatly appreciate if you would inspire colleagues to sign. We kindly
ask our esteemed associated members and helpers to collect signa-
tures. We are also inviting members of other physician and scientist
NGO:s to sign.
OPEN LETTER DEMANDING WITHDRAWAL OF GE FOODS FROM THE MARKET
The letter demands that GE foods that have not undergone rigorous
safety assesment including long term testing on animals and humans.
are withdrawn from the market. This includes all foods that have been
approved on the basis the principle of "substantial equivalence" All
GE foods on the market have been appoved on the basis of this princi-
ple. We have been maintaining this for long but find the time is now
mature for this move. If you are in doubt about this issue, please see
"Substantial equivalence versus scientific food safety assessment" at
http://www.psrast.org/subeqow.htm
The letter follows in the next mail with the subject heading "Open
letter of PSRAST".
OPEN LETTER OF SIS
We support the open letter of the Institute of Science in the Society
(SIS) signed already by over 120 physicians and scientists. Please
consider signing it as well and to help collecting more signatures on
it. It calls for "the immediate suspension of all environmental
releases of GM crops, both commercially and in open field trials, for
at least 5 years; and for patents on organisms, seeds, cell lines and
genes to be revoked and banned". You find more about this at the
website of SIS at http://www.i-sis.dircon.co.uk/
The SIS other letter comes in the second following e-mail with the
subject heading "SIS open letter".
TO SIGN BOTH OR EITHER LETTERS:
Go to the signature registration form at:
http://www.flashbase.com/forms/letrsign
Best regards,
Jaan Suurkula, MD
Chairman of PSRAST
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Physicians and Scientists for Responsible
Application of Science and Technology
(PSRAST)
A Global Network for impartial interdisciplinary evaluation
of the safety and value of new technologies
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Website: http://www.psrast.org
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