From: pegasus1 [pegasus1@jps.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 3:47 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: please consider us consumers!

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS 
MUST BE LABELED AND TESTED FOR SAFETY!

* 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.

PLEASE ACT TODAY. THE DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS IS TUESDAY, APRIL 3.

Email your comments to: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
  with "Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598" in the Subject line

Mail your comments to:
   Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598
   Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)
   Food and Drug Administration
   5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061
   Rockville, MD 20852

For more information: www.organicconsumers.org , 218-226-4164

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