<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Some of you may have received the warning below already. For now, this should have little impact on Vietnamese fishing -- but we don't know the consequences in the future.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The response that CREDO is asking for should be submitted by U.S. citizens only, I suppose, because the agency making this decision is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- so likely the FDA would ignore any input from people who are not Americans. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>If this is approved, and GMO salmon are released into the wild so that the entire salmon population is contaminated, many people will stop eating salmon -- completely. So for fishermen and fish breeders, it will become very counter-productive and maybe destructive to a whole way of life.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>CHUCK</span> <br></div><div><font size="1"><br><span
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Late last year the FDA quietly took a major step toward approving the "frankenfish," AquaBounty's genetically modified salmon.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Its approval would be a radical move by the FDA — <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);">the first genetically modified animal ever to enter our food supply</span>.</b>
It's no wonder the FDA posted its final review, clearing the way for approval, on the Friday before the Christmas holiday,
when few people would notice.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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The FDA is now taking public comments on its study, which is expected to lead to approval of the frankenfish. This is our
last chance to keep GMO salmon off our grocery store shelves, and stop the dangerous trend of introducing GM animals into
our food supply.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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AquaBounty's frankenfish is an Atlantic salmon, spliced with genes from an eel pout and growth hormone from a Chinook salmon.
The result is a salmon that produces growth hormone year-round and grows twice as fast. <b>The risks are myriad.</b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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The fish hasn't been proven safe for humans.</b> But the FDA is preparing to approve it based on a limited, flawed and inadequate
study — even though the same study identified elevated allergy-causing potential,<sup>1</sup> and elevated levels
of the IGF-1 growth hormone, which is linked to colon, prostate and breast cancers. Clearly more study is needed to determine
the safety or danger of GMO salmon.<sup>2</sup></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Were GMO salmon to escape its farms into the wild, the fish would pose a serious risk to wild salmon populations.</b> The
GMO salmon consume five times more food than wild salmon, and are more aggressive. Introducing these traits into the wild
population would be serious — and irreversible.<sup>3</sup></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Separate from any risks, the GMO salmon are less healthy to eat — producing less of the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids
than conventional salmon — and a less efficient food source — requiring 1.5 to 8 kilograms of wild fish to produce
one kilogram of conventional farmed salmon.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Worse still, without GMO labeling, these frankenfish would be totally unlabeled on store shelves, and indistinguishable from
other farmed salmon, so consumers will have no way of making an informed choice.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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The White House knows that the public is opposed to GMO salmon and is feeling our pressure.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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A recent report even documents that the White House may have delayed the release of the FDA assessment, which was completed
in May, until after the election</b>, to avoid upsetting the president's political base.<sup>4</sup></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Significant public opposition in this comment period is our best shot at preventing approval of GMO salmon. But this is our
last chance. So now is the time to make your voice heard. Submit a comment now:
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Thanks for fighting for safe food.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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