From: Deanna King [femmegod@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:14 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: public comment

I am greatly concerned about the proposed new rules on
gentically engineered foods. It is apparent to me that
the FDA has failed to require health and ecological
safety testing or mandatory labeling, and thus puts my
health and our environment at risk. I have  the right
to know or choose what I am eating. Please re evaluate
your guidelines and rules on this delicate matter. I
have included my requests.

* 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 consumers.

* 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.

Sincerely,
Deanna King

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With love and Blessings, Deanna

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