From: Stavroula Psaraki [Stavroula@compuserve.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:36 AM
To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598


Dear Sir or Madam:

I am a young mother writing to urge to protect my family's health and
welfare.  

We are greatly alarmed with your proposed new rules on genetically
engineered (GE) foods.  Despite all the concerns by scientists, doctors,
and consumers alike, you, the agency that is supposed to protect us, are
not requiring health and ecological safety testing nor mandatory labelling
of these unnatural, laboratory-created foods.   This is outrageous and
downright irresponsible.  You are allowing the companies who manufacture
and sell these "foods" to conduct a giant experiment on me, my children and
my future grandchildren!  

Why are you in such a hurry to approve these new products?  What is the
true agenda, and whose interests are you really serving?  Why are you not
requiring labelling and safety testing?  What is your motive here?

You must change the proposed rules to include the following conditions:

1.  FDA must require mandatory pre-market comprehensive environmental
review.
2.  FDA must require mandatory pre-market long-term health testing.
3.  FDA must require manatory labelling of GE products.
4.  FDA must end its cozy relationship with industries it purports to be
regulating.

As Dr. Jonas Salk lamented, at a dinner hosted by Barbara Bush in
Washington, DC several years ago which I had the privilege to attend, while
human beings have accomplished so much and advanced so far technologically,
"we have become our own pathogens!"  That is to say, by the very act of
growing and distributing our food, we are poisoning, even killing,
ourselves and our planet!  Look how far we have fallen and at what we are
actually doing!   It is up to those of you there at the FDA, who have any
sort of conscience, ethics or integrity, to reverse these trends, and to
truly make the health, safety, and welfare of our citizens your FIRST AND
FOREMOST PRIORITY, and to make these profit-motivated corporations
accountable for the impact they are having on human life worldwide.

I urge you to change these proposed GE foods rules, and to ensure that what
is being offered as "food" by these laboratories will, in fact, promote
life and health and not destroy it.

We are watching your actions, and we hope you will represent us in your
decisions.

Thanking you for this opportunity to comment, I am

Yours truly,

Stavroula Psaraki