From: EXECSEC
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:55 PM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598



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> From: 	Scott Vlaun[SMTP:SCOTT@MOOSEPONDARTS.COM]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:55:09 PM
> To: 	Commissioner
> Subject: 	Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598
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Commissioner ,

To whom it may concern,

As an organic grower and husband of woman with numerous allergies, I am extremely concerned that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has proposed regulations that still fail to require labels or safety tests on genetically
engineered (GE) food while labelling on GE foods is required in Japan, Russia, and throughout Europe Your new
proposal continues to deny Americans the right to know how our food is produced.
 

Labels must be required to protect the public from potential health effects that could only be traced if GE foods can be
identified, yet FDA?s "voluntary labeling" guidelines will leave thousands of unlabeled GE foods on our supermarket
shelves. Doctors and scientists have warned about the potential for GE foods to trigger dangerous allergies, change the nutritional value of foods, and cause irreversible harm to the environment.  

I urge you to reconsider this proposal and insure that GE foods are subject to pre-market testing and labeling. Americans deserve the same protections as the rest of the world. 


Scott Vlaun
35 Moose Pond rd
Otisfield, ME 04270
USA
scott@moosepondarts.com