From: EXECSEC
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:32 AM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: Genetically Engineered Crops



-----Original Message-----
From: Henney, Jane 
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:01 PM
To: EXECSEC
Subject: FW: Genetically Engineered Crops




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> From: 	Cmnkatz@aol.com[SMTP:CMNKATZ@AOL.COM]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:01:02 PM
> To: 	jhenney@oc.fda.gov
> Cc: 	debbie@organicconsumers.org; greenguide@mothers.org
> Subject: 	Genetically Engineered Crops
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I am writing to implore you and the FDA to stop using the American public as 
guinea pigs.  Our food supply is the stuff of life, and yet you are 
permitting chemical companies to unleash untested newly created "foods" on us 
without adequate safety testing and studies for long-term effects on human 
beings and other species and forms of life.  Nobody knows what possible 
changes in the human and animal organism can result from ingesting 
genetically altered crops over long periods of time.  

This is what I expect of the FDA:

1. I want to be protected from these "foods" by their bearing an easily 
recognized symbol or statement that informs the consumer that they are 
"GMOs".  

2. I want there to be adequate testing of GMOs under scrupulous testing 
conditions and for a sufficient period of time that allows observation of 
their effects on human, animal and insect organisms as well as the possible 
contamination of non-GMO crops.

3. I want your allegiance to be to the consumer, not to the corporate 
interests.  Don't be held hostage to their avarice.  Remember that your own 
health and that of generations of your descendants may be in jeopardy.  We 
all have a stake in the safety of our food supply.  

4. Protect us and our children from being used as the test population for 
these newly created "foods."  

Caryle Katz
3400 Woodward Street
Oceanside, NY 11572