From: Liz Maguire [liz_maguire@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:08 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov

Attn: FDA Review Committee



Your agency is supported by public revenues for the purpose of protecting public health.  Regardless of your extreme pro-Monsanto bias and blatant conflicts of interest, I would appreciate if you would make a responsible decision for a change.  We already submit to your unethical oversight of Nutra-Sweet and Bovine Growth Hormone - is that not enough of an industrial assault upon our well-being?  In the wake of a corporate/military coup of our Executive Branch, can you please help us to pretend we still live in a civilized, democratic society where every voice matters? Please listen to the millions of voices that are sreaming for representation. Give Monsanto back their loot and do your F'n jobs! 
Specifically:

* 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. 
Thank You Very Much,

Elizabeth Maguire

Portland, ME



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