From: Ed & Kate [ekdaigle@citcom.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 4:17 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket OON-1392 & Docket OOD-1598

In order to protect the health and safety of the people and the
enviornment, it is important that the following changes  made:

* The FDA must reqiire  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 forevercausing unlimited and
irreparable damage.

* The FDA ahmust require mandatory pre-market long term health testings. GE
products  could be toxic, cause allergic responses have lower nutritional
values 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
products liable should any of these novel products  be hazardous.

* The FDA must end it's cozy relationship with the industries it purports
to be requlating. People have been allowed to work for a  biotech company,
then work for the FDA writing the requlatory rules on that company's
product, the go back working for the company. Ninety-two percent  of FDA
advisory committee meetings had at least one conflict of interest.

Edward A. Daigle
23 Park Ave.
Brevard NC, 28712