From: Robert R. Bell [hazmatter@excite.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:05 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket # 00N-1396 and 00D-1598


Dear Commissioner Henney, 

The proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations fail to 
require labels or safety tests on genetically engineered (GE) food. I would
like to know what is in my families food instead of  protecting the economic
interests of biotech corporations. 

Labeling GE foods would give me the choice of choosing the food I eat and my
family members eat using any criteria I choose.  I do not like to be force
fed someones experiments. By refusing to require both labeling and mandatory
safety testing of foods, the FDA is using consumers as the test lab animals
at no cost to them.  Further this experimentation without consent ignores
the recommendations of the Biotechnology Consultative Forum, who in December
urged the US to require mandatory labeling of GE foods. 

Labeling food nutritional data hasn't damaged corporate profits and if prior
testing and labeling is required, the corporate food controllers will still
make their profits.  

I urge you to reconsider this proposal and insure that GE foods are 
subject to pre-market testing and labeling.  Americans have a right to 
make informed decisions about the food we consume. 

Sincerely,

Robert Bell DVM
5217 134th Ave. NW # 211
Williston ND 58801
701-572-0917





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