From: clyons1@wildmail.com
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:08 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: What's in your food? (FDA Dockets 00N-1396 and 00D-1598)


Dear Corporate and Government Leaders,

Neither government nor industry is protecting Americans from the risks posed to human health and the environment by genetically engineered (GE) foods. The Food and Drug Administration's "new" policy on GE foods (proposed January 18, 2001) continues to let the biotech industry regulate itself; it fails to require the long-term, pre-market safety testing demanded by independent experts. The "voluntary labeling" guidelines are a wholly inadequate response to the overwhelming public support for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods. Therefore, I urge you to keep all genetically engineered ingredients and crops off the market unless:

1) Independent safety testing demonstrates they have no harmful effects on human health or the environment, 

2) They are labeled to ensure the consumer's right-to-know, and 

3) The biotechnology corporations that manufacture them are held accountable for any harms they may cause.


Your company had a name I trusted because my family always used your products.  Thanks for being greedy and not informing us of the chemicals you are dumping in our food and thanks for passimg savings, pay raises etc on to your employees or us the consumer.  You have to be saving money using these products so why are you all so greedy 


Sincerely

Candy Lyons
6401 Somerset st
 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17111