From: jennet@frii.com
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 8:07 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: genetically engineered food


> 
> * 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.

sincerely, jennet grover
               bob crane


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