From: jessicap@valor-us.com
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:27 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

Dear Food and Drug Administration,
The FDA must require mandatory pre-market comprehensive environmental review with mandatory labeling for genetically engineered foods.  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. 

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS MUST BE LABELED AND TESTED FOR SAFETY.

Sincerely,
Jessica Pursell