From: Ron Flora [wordform@lisco.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:29 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

I find the FDA's proposed rules
regarding genetically engineered
foods entirely inadequate to insure
consumer safety. We
simply do not have enough information to
go down this road
without carefully considering the impact
of genetically engineered
foods on the human physiology.

We are already hearing about the
negative effects of long-term
indiscriminate use of antibiotics on
disease control and with
genetic engineering the implications
could be cataclysmic.

Like atomic power, the risk reward ratio
is difficult to ascertain
without adequate long term testing and a
national debate. Surely
the reaction in Europe has not escaped
your attention.

I will be contcting my senators and
representative in regard to this
matter, expressing my strong concerns.

Sincerely,

Ronald R Flora