From: Dave Cole [davefcole@excite.com]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:04 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

Please consider and adopt the following positions.

* 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
consumer                    

* 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 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.  Ninety-two percent of FDA advisory
committee meetings had at least one conflict of interest. 

Thank you in advance for your continued consideration, and hopefully
eventual adoption of these positions.






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