From: Shelley Amdur [shelleyruth@iGlide.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:58 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

I am writing regarding the proposed new rules on Genetically Engineered foods.  
The proposed ruling puts our health at risk.  

Any new rules MUST:
1) Require mandatory pre-market comprehensive environmental review.  A small number
of mutant genes could have a population explosion and reproduce forever, causing unlimited
and irreparable damage.

2)  Require mandatory pre-market long term health testing.  GE products could be toxic, 
and compromise immune responses in consumers.

3) Mandatory labeling.  A must.

4) FDA must end its blurred relationship with the biotech industry it purports to be
regulating.  Stop the conflicts of interest.  

If the FDA does not enact some strict rules along the lines I have mentioned above,
we are due for a health scare that will make Mad Cow disease or Foot and Mouth 
disease look paltry.  Please do not put the health of all of us at risk.
Shelley R. Amdur
4723 N. Sacramento Ave.
Chicago, IL  60625