From: Stephanie Dees [sugahbee@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:22 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: GE regulations

Here are my thoughts about genetically engineered
foods:

* 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 as 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.

This matter is VERY important to me.  I avoid buying
potatoes, corn, soy, and canola oil unless its organic
or from europe, because I do not want to ingest GE
foods.  We NEED to have more information, not less,
regarding what foods have GMO's in order for us as
consumers to make an educated decision in the foods we
purchase.  Please consider this.

thanks
Stephanie

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