From: mwinkler@cheaptickets.com
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:11 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: What's in your food? (FDA Dockets 00N-1396 and 00D-1598)


Dear Corporate and Government Leaders,

Genetically engineered food ingredients or crops should not be allowed on the market until: 

1) Independent safety testing demonstrates they have no harmful effects on human health or the environment, 

2) They are labeled to ensure the consumer's right-to-know, and 

3) The biotechnology corporations that manufacture them are held responsible for any harm.

doesn't the idea that a proposed law that would keep non-engineered food from simply declaring it's tamper-free origins suggest that someone is trying to keep something from everyone? This is a basic liberty to be told of such things. that this right would be suppressed in almost incredible in a free society


Sincerely

marshall winkler
448 kuamoo st #4
honolulu, Hawaii 96815