From: rbee [rbee2020@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 4:24 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket OON-1396 & Docket OOD-1598

Please add my comments to your discussion of
these two dockets. 
Thank You.

> * You 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.
> 
> * You 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.
> 
> * You 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. And, I want to know what I am  

  buying. I'm not going to just take the  
  manufacturer's word that their food is OK.
> 
> * You MUST end your cozy relationship with
> the industries
>   you purport 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. 

Thank you, Robin Bee
PO Box 3991
Portland, Oregon 97208

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