From: Lv2breathe@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 8:01 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Cc: Lv2breathe@aol.com
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598
     GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS NEED TO BE LABELED! 

      As a concerned citizen, I am also asking the FDA to: 

      *Require mandatory pre-market comprehensive environmental review.   
Unlike conventional pollutants, where a small 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. 

    *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. 

      * Must end it's 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 
committe meetings had at least 
one conflict of interest. 

Kristina Cahill 
333 N. Colorado Pl. 
Long Beach, CA  90814