From: Surosen@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:14 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

To FDA regarding proposed GE guidelines, 

As a private citizen, I must make my voice heard in regards to GE foods.
The GE guidelines 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.

         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.

         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.

         In addition, 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.

I am deeply concerned about the FDA's lack of intelligent regulation on the 
issue of GE foods.  I want to see strick regulations put in place.  I do not 
want to be forced to unknowingly buy, participate or propigate the GE 
technologies now rampant in the food industry.  It is a dangerous, 
unintelligent use of God's gift to man, the earth and its resources.
Sincerely,   Susan Rosenfield