From: Sgoochs@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:23 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598
To Whom It May Concern: 

The purpose of this letter is to express my deep concern over the need for 
labeling requirements on genetically modified foods.  Bio-engineers have 
begun creating hundred of new GE crops, oblivious to human and environmental 
hazards, or negative socioeconomic impacts on the world's several billion 
farmers and rural villagers.  An increasing number of scientists have warned 
that current gene-splicing techniques are crude, inexact, and unpredictable 
-- and therefore inherently dangerous. 

Genetic engineering of food and fiber products is inherently unpredictable 
and dangerous -- for humans, for animals, the environment, and for the future 
of sustainable and organic agriculture.  Genetically engineered products 
clearly have the potential to be toxic and a threat to human health.  For 
this reason, the public deserves to be informed -- particularly by means of 
appropriate labeling -- that the food they purchase for consumption is a 
potential health risk. 

Sincerely, 

Sandra V. Gooch