From: EXECSEC
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:09 AM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598



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> From: 	Libby Albright[SMTP:LIBBYINCAL@MINDSPRING.COM]
> Sent: 	Friday, March 16, 2001 1:09:09 AM
> To: 	Commissioner
> Subject: 	Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598
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Commissioner ,

Why does the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) proposed regulations that still
fail to require labels or safety tests on genetically
engineered (GE) food ?  Why are these companies more important than your children and mine?  

I am a victim of fibromyalgia and quite aware of nutritional problems.  I know when additives make me sick.  If labels on GE foods are required
in Europe, Japan, and Russia, why do you think we need less protection?  Why should we be the guinea pigs?  You don't protect us and that is what your department is about. You are lying if you pretend that we know the long term results of food with features to fight bugs and plant disease.  We are biological creatures, too.  We at least have the right in america should have the right to know what
is in our food.
 

Labels must be required to protect the public from potential
health effects that could only be traced if GE foods can be
identified, yet FDA's "voluntary labeling" guidelines will
leave thousands of unlabeled GE foods on our supermarket
shelves. Your recommendation fails to require any safety testing.
Doctors and scientists have warned about the potential for
GE foods for allergies, change the
nutritional value of foods, make the foods undigestible to humans and cause irreversible harm to
the environment. 

Our children are at risk!


I urge you to reconsider this proposal and insure that GE
foods are subject to pre-market testing and labeling.
Americans deserve the same protections as the rest of the
world. 


Libby Albright
228 Ximeno ave
Long Beach, CA 90803
USA
libbyincal@mindspring.com