From: EXECSEC
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 4:39 PM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598



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> From: 	Liisa Wale[SMTP:L_WALE@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: 	Saturday, March 10, 2001 4:38:42 PM
> To: 	Commissioner
> Subject: 	Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598
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Commissioner ,

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. 
Have you not seen the polls within the last couple of years that say 80% of Americans would 
like to see labeling of our food?!  
What is more disturbing to me is that the current administration is trying to bully 
other countries into doing the same.  
I was extremely disappointed that Britain recently fell into your trap and lifted the monetorium on genetically modiefied foods.  
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. 


Liisa Wale
2255 W. Burnside #609
Portland, OR 97210
United States
l_wale@yahoo.com