From: "pj" Perrinjaquet, MD, MPH [docpj@colorado.net]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:16 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

Please count my vote for the following:

* Environmental Review -  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.

* Health testing - 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.

* Mandatory Labeling - 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.

* End Conflict of Interest - 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.

The future of life on Earth is at stake.

Sincerely,

C. L. Perrinjaquet, MD, MPH