From: Carla Cassata [carlacassata@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:00 PM To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov Subject: GE foods/products As an American I am SO outraged that you are not protecting our food supply with regard to the GE issue as you should be doing!! As a mother, health educator, and consumer, I want protection from GE food and products. See below. GE foods and products MUST be tested BEFORE they are allowed on the market and they MUST be LABELED so that we can choose what to eat and not to eat! YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY with your job and you are giving in to big industry! SHAME ON YOU!!!! REMEMBER, time has a way of revealing the truth!! Is this what you want as YOUR legacy?? * 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. Sincerely, Carla (Cassata) Davis CarlaCassata@hotmail.com (407) 898-8898 1636 E. Ridgewood St. Orlando, FL 32803 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.