From: Liz Hofstetter [ebmh7@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 10:08 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket OON-1396 & Docket OOD-1598


>To the FDA:
>I can't say this enough:
>GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS MUST BE LABELED!
>
>     I can't understand why, despite overwhelming consumer demand, the FDA 
>has
>failed to require ecological safety testing or mandatory labeling of
>genetically engineered 'foods.'
>     You are putting our health and our environment at risk and you are
>depriving American citizens of the right to know or choose what we are
>eating.
>
>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.
>
>*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.
>
>*end your relationship with the industries you purport 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.  According to my sources, Ninety-two percent of 
>FDA
>advisory committee meetings had at least one conflict of interest.  How can
>you operate this way?  Have you no moral conscience?  We are talking about
>the health and safety of our one and only planet, and the children that
>inhabit it.

Elizabeth Hofstetter
ebmh7@hotmail.com

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