From: Roberta Diaz Brinton [rbrinton@hsc.usc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 5:38 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: genetically engineered foods


>  R
>
>Dear FDA Officials:
>I strongly urge the FDA to take the following actions on behalf of the
>consumers of the United States whose safety and health you have been
>entrusted to safeguard.
>
>1)The FDA must require mandatory pre-market comprehensive
>   environmental review.
>2)The FDA must require mandatory pre-market long-term health
>   testing.
>3)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.
>4)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.
>
>Thank you very much and I look forward to your honest efforts on behalf of
>America's consumers.





Sincerely,

Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology and Neuroscience
Norris Foundation Laboratory for Neuroscience Research
Director of the USC STAR Science Education Program
University of Southern California
School of Pharmacy
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Los Angeles, CA 90089

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