From: Mikaeel9@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 5:29 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

    The FDA needs to put an end to the genetically engineered foods.  We need 
safe and pure food and these plants that have been tampered with are unproven 
at best.  We are playing with mother nature on this one and it must end. 

    Genetically engineered products must be tested and labeled.

    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 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.

Respectfully yours,
Michael Von Shearer
Center For World Peace and Understanding