From: LiAnn Rotto [ggbliann@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:25 PM
To: FDA
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

FDA Commissioner Jane Henney
Dockets Management Branch (HFA 305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 FisherĮs Lane, Room 1061
Rockville, MD 20852


Dear Commissioner Henney,

The proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations fail to
require labels or safety tests on genetically engineered (GE) food. The
new rules continue to deny Americans the right to know what is in our
food, while protecting the economic interests of biotech corporations.

Labeling GE foods would protect the public from potential health effects

that could only be traced if GE foods can be identified. By refusing to
require both labeling and mandatory safety testing of foods, the FDA
puts consumer's health at risk, and ignores the recommendations of the
Biotechnology Consultative Forum, who in December urged the US to
require mandatory labeling of GE foods.

I urge you to reconsider this proposal and insure that GE foods are
subject to pre-market testing and labeling.  Americans have a right to
make informed decisions about the food we consume.  Other countries
around the world have much stricter policies on this issue.  I'm simply
requesting what seems a basic right as an American citizen.  Please
don't put corporate interests before the health of the citizens of our
great country.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

LiAnn Rotto

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