From: GMARTON@fairfield.k12.ct.us
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:43 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket OON-1396 & Docket OOD-1598


18 Cottage Place 
Trumbull, CT  06611 
                                                        
FDA Commissioner 
Docket No. OON-1396 / OOD-1598 
FDA Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) 
Food and Drug Administration 
5360 Fishers Lane, Room 1061 
Rockville, MD 20852 

March 24, 201 
  
Honorable Commissioner: 

I am writing to express my VERY strong opposition to the FDA's proposed rule and 
guidance on genetically engineered (GE) foods.  The agency's voluntary 
labeling and notification proposals are totally inadequate to protect human 
health, our environment, and my right to know what I'm eating.  European 
nations have taken a much more responsible position than the United States by requiring complete disclosure.  Pressure from large corporations who stand to profit from an unsuspecting public should not be allowed to sway the development of 

responsible public policy by the government of the United States. 
  
I fully support the following: 

*  All genetically engineered foods and food ingredients should be labeled so that I am informed and have a choice. 
*  Genetically engineered foods should not be presumed safe.  They should be subject to mandatory pre-market safety testing. 

* There should be a moratorium on the introduction of new genetically engineered foods until long-term research and scientific studies prove they are safe for human health and the environment. 

Yours sincerely, 

Gail M. Marton