From: mcharlot [mcharlot@mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 1:12 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: "Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598" 

Dear Sir/Madam:
   The people I know, family, friends and neighbors, are
of the opinion that:
YOU,
* 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.
YOU,
* 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.
YOU,
* 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.
YOU,
* 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.

Your Agency is responsible for supporting and maintaining
the Public Health and implementing laws safeguarding the
wellbeing and the informed food choices of the American People. The American
People are better informed than you would think, and we insist that you act
according to the purpose for which you are paid by the People (Government
through our taxes), and for which this Agency was created in the first place.
Sincerely,
Charlotte Nakosteen
Santa Barbara
California
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Charlotte Nakosteen
mcharlot@sb.net