From: Rebecca Wheeler [superheaddie@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:45 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: I have the right to make informed decisions about the food I
consume!!

     Dear Commissioner Henney,

   The proposed Food and Drug Administaion (FDA) regulations fail to require 
labels or saftey tests on genetically engineered (GE) food. The new rules 
continue to deny Americans the right to know what is in our food, while 
protecting the economic interests of biotech corporations.

   Labeling GE foods would protect the public from potential health effects 
that could only be traced if GE foods can be identified. By refusing to 
require both labeling and mandatory saftey testing of foods, the FDA puts 
consumer's health at risk, and ignores the recomendations of the 
Biotechnology Consultative Forum, who in December urged the US to require 
mandatory labeling of GE foods.

   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 eat.

                       Sincerley, Rebecca Wheeler
                                  157 Clinton Rd.
                                  Antrim, NH 03440







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