From: ddrinnan@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:13 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.

At the very least, the safety of genetically
altered foods should be THOROUGHLY tested for
years (if not generations!) before allowing it
to proliferate.  And WITHOUT QUESTION - foods
should contain obvious labeling if they are
anything other than natural, organic and
un-altered... to identify what additives,
chemicals, alterations, or other processes the
food has undergone.  The consumers have a right
to know... and there is no defensible arguement
I've heard which justifies keeping any of this
information secret or hidden from the consumers.



Sincerely

David Drinnan
PO Box 92
Middlebury, Connecticut 06762