From: John Merz [johnsmerz@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:47 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Cc: ladybug@midcoast.com
Subject: docketOON-1396 & docket OOD-1598

It is an abomination that genetically engineered foods have been permitted 
into the food supply of this nation. The biotechnology industry is releasing 
hundreds of thousands of GE organisms into the environment every year. These 
organisms can reproduce, cross pollinate, mutate, and migrate. Each release 
of a GE organism is a round of ecological Russian roulette. Recently, 
Avantis' GE StarLink corn, a variety approved by the USDA only for livestock 
consumption, entered the food supply by mixing in grain elevators and cross- 
pollinating in the field.
In order to prevent this type of debacle the FDA should require manditory 
pre-marketing environmental review; manditory pre-marketing health testing; 
and manditory labeling of GE foods.
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