From: Lauryn Christean [christean33@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 12:18 PM
To: fdadocket@oc.fda.gov
Subject: dockett 00N-1396 & 00D-1598





    
    
    It is my opinion that:

    
    * 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.
    
    The proposed rules and regulations are not in the interest of consumers and will further compromise the nutrutional value of food available to American consumers.  Please put the intrests of those who are eating the food over the interests of those profitting from the production of "food".  I should be able to determine from the label  if I am consuming genetically engineered food.   

    Sincerely Lauryn Christean




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