From: cjboater@hotmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 5:04 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Oppose FDA's New Regulations on Genetically Engineered Food

Craig Johnson
1673 Taylor Av
St.Paul, MN  55104 
cjboater@hotmail.com


RE: Docket No. 00N-1396, and 00D-1598

Dear FDA,

I am greatly opposed to your new "voluntary labeling" policy, 
which denies consumers a basic right to know. 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 will 
also be deprived of the critical knowledge they need to hold 
food producers liable should any of these novel foods prove 
hazardous.

Your proposed rules ignore serious concerns, and appear 
to be a decision made to convenience industry at the 
expense of public health and the environment. I will not 
accept your attempt to make me a guinea pig of these 
untested foods, and I trust you will take my concern along 
with the thousands of others into serious consideration.

Sincerely,



Craig Johnson