From: EXECSEC
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:16 PM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598



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> From: 	Kimberly Click[SMTP:KIMCLICK@HOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: 	Monday, March 12, 2001 9:15:37 PM
> To: 	Commissioner
> Subject: 	Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598
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Commissioner ,

I think it is time that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) listened to the 
concerns of many individuals instead of
 being beholden to the large corporations
 that seem to make policy decisions in 
this country. 

I am extremely concerned that the  (FDA) has proposed regulations that still
fail to require labels or safety tests on genetically
engineered (GE) food. Labels on GE foods are required
in Japan, Russia, and throughout Europe, yet your new
proposal continues to deny Americans the right to know what
is in our food.
 

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. Furthermore, the agency?s proposed rule only
requires companies to notify FDA when bringing GE foods
to market, but it fails to require any safety testing.
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. FDA appears to be playing politics with
our food, disregarding science-based precautions that other
countries have implemented.


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. It is particularly alarming to me 
that companies are removing GE foods from
 products sold in Europe but have not 
done the same in the United States. I 
would at least like to have the 
opportunity to know when there are GM
 foods in a product that I purchase. I 
urge you to require the labeling of GM 
foods!


Kimberly Click
1436 Liholiho St., Apt. D
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
kimclick@hotmail.com