From: HEALTHYME@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 10:22 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598
To:FDA    ref: above docket 

Surely there is a need to require GE foods to meet SOME standard of safety.   
The FDA is the only hope the people of the USA has to assure the quality of 
the foods we are consuming.   The FDA must require mandatory pre-market 
comprehensive 
>  environmental review. Unlike conventional pollutants, 
>  where a given amount of pollutant causes a limited amount 
>  of damage, a small number of mutant genes could have a 
>  population explosion and reproduce forever, causing 
>  unlimited and irreparable damage. 
> 
>* The FDA must require mandatory pre-market long-term health 
>  testing. GE products could be toxic, cause allergic 
>  responses, have lower nutritional value, and compromise 
>  immune responses in consumers. 
> 
>* The FDA must require mandatory labeling of GE products. 
>  Without mandatory labeling, neither consumers nor health 
>  professionals will know if an allergic or toxic reaction 
>  was the result of a genetically engineered food. Consumers 
>  would be deprived of the critical knowledge needed to hold 
>  food producers liable should any of these novel products 
>  be hazardous. 
> 
>* The FDA must end its cozy relationship with the industries 
>  it purports to be regulating. People have been allowed to 
>  work for a biotech company, then work for the FDA writing the 
>  regulatory rules on that company's product, then go back to 
>  working for the company.  Ninety-two percent of FDA advisory 
>  committee meetings had at least one conflict of interest. 
> 
please register my concern and count my opinion. 
Jay Steinberg, Hollywood, FL.