From: Sanchez, Marisela [msanch02@harris.com]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 3:48 PM
To: 'fdadockets@oc.fda.gov'
Subject: FW:Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged

 Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598 
  Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) 
  Food and Drug Administration 

FDA  employees and officials: 

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS 
MUST BE LABELED AND TESTED FOR SAFETY!  
 
It's the only moral things to do.  Please start caring about people's health and not about the money.  

 I believe that the FDA must do several things in this case:
 
* 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.   
 
* The FDA must end its cozy relationship with the industries 
 it purports to be regulating.  Why do you allow  people  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 ?
 
 I would like a response from the FDA so that I can know my comments/voice was read/heard on this very important matter.
 
Marisela Sanchez-Ho