From: Robert Notestine [yabob108@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 9:59 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598t 

 As a concerned citizen/taxpayer, please pay attention
to my family's wishes  
 * The FDA must require mandatory pre-market
> comprehensive 
>   environmental review. Unlike conventional
> pollutants, 
>   where a given amount of pollutant causes a limited
> amount 
>   of damage, a small number of mutant genes could
> have a 
>   population explosion and reproduce forever,
> causing 
>   unlimited and irreparable damage.
> 
> * The FDA must require mandatory pre-market
> long-term health 
>   testing. GE products could be toxic, cause
> allergic 
>   responses, have lower nutritional value, and
> compromise 
>   immune responses in consumers.
> 
> * The FDA must require mandatory labeling of GE
> products. 
>   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 
>   would be deprived of the critical knowledge needed
> to hold 
>   food producers liable should any of these novel
> products 
>   be hazardous.
> 
> * The FDA must end its cozy relationship with the
> industries
>   it purports to be regulating. People have been
> allowed to 
>   work for a biotech company, then work for the FDA
> writing the 
>   regulatory rules on that company's product, then
> go back to
>   working for the company.  Ninety-two percent of
> FDA advisory 
>   committee meetings had at least one conflict of
> interest.
> 
>  


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