From: Gary Smith [Vesta18@Juno.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 7:59 PM
To: EXECSEC
Subject: Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598


Commissioner ,

I am a U.S. citizen
And if I wasn't, I still would deserve the right to protect 
my health as I see fit; as does everyone else.

Labels on GE foods are required
in Japan, Russia, and Europe, yet your new
proposal continues to deny Americans the right to know what
is in our food.

Because of the Election fiasco, people might have forgoten that 
we diserve to have control over our lives.

Doctors and scientists have warned about the potential for
GE foods to trigger dangerous allergies, change the
nutritional value of foods, and cause irreversible harm to
the environment. FDA appears to be playing politics with
our food, disregarding science-based precautions that other
countries have implemented.

Americans deserve the same protections as the rest of the
world. 


Gary Smith
27171 Coachman Way
Lake Forest, CA 92630
United States
Vesta18@Juno.com