From: maj at WP [majik@webprecision.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 1:07 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

To whom It May concern:

Greetings

It is a person's right to know what they are putting into their bodies, and
in response to this I am writing to support the inclusion of several
requirements. Kindly address these points. It is one thing to provide the
ways and means for people to knowingly pollute themselves, and another to
use deceit and the withholding of proper labelling and information as means
of intentionally or unintentionally blurring the lines between natural and
balanced food and produce, and food and produce designed to make profit at
the expense of the health and well-being of the public.




* 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.

Thankyou for your time and attention to this matter.


Stephen Saunders