From: Rebecca Dabkowski [RebeccaD@spectra-gases.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:09 PM
To: 'fdadockets@oc.fda.gov'
Subject: DOCKET 00N-1396 & DOCKET 00D- 1598

	TO WHOM IT CONCERNS, 
	I AM WRITING TO EXPRESS MY CONCERNS REGARDING GENETICALLY MODIFIED
FOODS AS I HAVE DONE MANY TIMES.  AS A CONSUMER I AM HORRIFIED THAT YOU ARE
OPPOSED TO LABELING THESE PRODUCTS.   AFTER SEVERAL INCIDENTS OF STAR LINK
CORN  BEING FOUND IN FOOD PRODUCTS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION THE RED FLAGS HAD
BETTER BE RAISED.  
	NOT ONLY IS IT A SIN THAT THE VERY PEOPLE WHO INVENT THESE PRODUCTS
FOR MONSANTO  DO THE APPROVAL FOR THE FDA OF THEIR OWN WORK  IT IS ALSO A
CRIME AGAINST NATURE.   CORPORATIONS ARE USING PEOPLE AS GUINEA PIGS TO TEST
THESE PRODUCTS  INSTEAD OF DOING LONG TERM STUDIES ALL IN THE NAME OF
PROFITS.  THEY HAVE NO REGARD FOR THE EFFECTS ON THE ECOSYSTEM OR ON HUMAN
BIOLOGY.  
	THE INFINITE NUMBER OF GENETIC PROBLEMS THAT THESE PRODUCTS COULD BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR IS OUTRAGEOUS.  THE FACT THAT ASTHMA, CHRONIC FATIGUE,
ARTHRITIS, FYBROMYALGIA, CANCER, DIABETES, AND HOST OF OTHER AUTOIMMUNE
PROBLEMS ARE RUNNING RAMPED AND ARE ON THE RISE IN THE COUNTRY DESPITE THE
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT ARE SPENT SHOULD BE ANOTHER FACTOR IN HAVING THESE
PRODUCTS LABELED, MONITORED, AND TESTED FOR LONG TERM EFFECTS.  
	I WILL CONTINUE TO PURCHASE ONLY ORGANIC BASED FOODS UNTIL WHICH
TIME THESE PRODUCTS ARE LABELED OR OUTLAWED, PREFERABLY THE LATTER.
	IN SHORT I SUGGEST THE FOLLOWING:
	* 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. 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. 

	NO GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS!