From: Jennifer Rosa [jsrosa@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:49 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

When adopting rules for genetically engineered foods:

Please 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.

Please 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.

  Please 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.

-Jennifer Rosa
175-16 73rd Ave.
Fresh Meadows, NY 11366



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