From: Kendall Gewalt [houlton@wildmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 2:35 PM
To: Food and Drug Administration
Subject: Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598


Food and Drug Administration ,

Dear Commissioner:
As a teacher and a 
healthy individual 
that suffered from 
childhood asthma, 
I am acutely aware 
of my surroundings.
 I want to know what 
we put into our 
environment and into 
our bodies. I beg you 
to consider regulations 
that still fail to 
require labels or safety 
tests on genetically 
engineered (GE) food. 
Labels on GE foods are 
required in Japan, Russia, 
and throughout Europe, yet 
Americans do not enjoy the 
same liberties: the right 
to know what is in our food. 
The lack of testing and 
labels is inexcusable in 
this First World country!

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.

I urge you to reconsider this 
proposal and insure that GE 
foods are subject to pre-market 
testing and labeling. Americans 
deserve the same protections 
as the rest of the world. As 
you instruct your own children,
it's better safe than sorry!

Sincerely,
Kendall Gewalt


Kendall Gewalt

houlton@wildmail.com