From: Patricia [tm-dallas@mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:29 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: "Docket OON-1396 & Docket OOD-1598"

To whom it may concern,
I am a health professional and am very concerned about the indifference our Government is expressing in allowing our food to be poisoned.
* Please require mandatory pre-market safety testing
* Please require pre-market environmental review
* Please require mandatory labeling of GE foods
* Voluntary labeling of non-GE foods is outrageous
*  Please require more than a mere letter of notification prior to the marketing of a GE food
* Public must have access to adequate information 
  for independent review.
* * The FDA must require mandatory pre-market comprehensive environmental review.
* 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.
We must do something now to safeguard our food supply before it is too late.
Thank you,
Patricia Quinlivan