From: Randerso2@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:05 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

To the FDA,

Concerning the above Docket numbers, I request that you require health and 
ecological safety testing for all genetically modified/engineered foods. I 
request the right to know what I am eating in order to consciously choose it 
or reject it.

I assume your charter includes a responsibility to inform we the public of 
the pro's and con's of ingesting certain drugs and foods and other substances 
you deem fit to comment on. I also assume your charter mentions nothing about 
pandering to the  public your ideas about whether the public is capable of 
making their own decisions about what they choose to eat.

I demand that you:

* require mandatory pre-market safety testing of GE foods
* require pre-market environmental review of GE foods
* require mandatory labeling of GE foods
* do not restrict voluntary labeling of non-GE foods(your being bought out by 
the 
  bioengineering companies is showing and is the beginning of your demise)
* ensure public access to adequate information for independent review

It is public knowlege that 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. It is a 
wonder that anyone has any respect at all for you.

I also assume that no employee of the FDA is allowed to invest in the 
bioengineering companies you so routinely protect the interests of at the 
expense of the public interest. If you and your employees are allowed to 
invest in these bioengineering companies,  then you provide further proof of 
your lack of integrity and you are all fired as far as my tax dollars are 
concerned.

Your position on Bovine Growth Hormone greatly demonstrated to me your lack 
of faith in protecting the public interest. You are such bad actors.

Sincerely,

Richard C. Anderson
33 Parkview Road
Reading, MA 01867
e-mail: 2randerson@msn.com