From: SandyLej@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:17 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: labelling of genetically engineered foods

Dear FDA Officials:

I strongly urge the FDA to take the following actions on behalf of the 
consumers of the United States whose safety and health you have been 
entrusted to safeguard.

1)  The FDA must require mandatory pre-market comprehensive environmental 
review of the effects of genetically modified organisms.
 
2)  The FDA must require mandatory pre-market long-term health testing of all 
genetically modified foods.
 
3)  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.

4)  The FDA must end its cozy relationship with the industries it purports to 
be regulating.  Specifically, no person should be 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 work for the same biotech company, as has 
been documented in the past. 

Thank you very much for your attention to this letter.  I look forward to 
your honest efforts on behalf of America's consumers.

Sincerely,


Sandy Lejeune
4563 Atascadero Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93110