From: Janine Marshall-Nikora [janinemarshall@home.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 12:48 AM
To: Food and Drug Administration
Subject: Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598


Food and Drug Administration ,

I am extremely concerned that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed regulations that still fail to require labels or safety tests on genetically engineered (GE) food. Labels on GE foods are required in Japan, Russia, and throughout Europe, yet your new proposal continues to deny Americans the right to know whatis in our food.
 
Labels must be required to protect the public from potential health effects that could only be traced if GE foods can be
identified, yet FDA's "voluntary labeling" guidelines will leave thousands of unlabeled GE foods on our supermarket
shelves. Furthermore, the agency's proposed rule only requires companies to notify FDA when bringing GE foods
to market, but it fails to require any safety testing.

FDA appears to be playing politics with
our food, disregarding science-based precautions that other countries have implemented.

My family has a right to know what is in our food.  I urge you to reconsider this proposal and insure that GE foods are subject to pre-market testing and labeling. Americans deserve the same protections as the rest of the
world. 


Janine Marshall-Nikora
3366 W. Las Positas Blvd.
Pleasanton, ca 94588
USA
janinemarshall@home.com