From: Matthias Zenker [matthias@artselect.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 10:10 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

To whom it may concern,

Please require mandatory labeling of GE products. 
Without mandatory labeling, neither consumers like me nor health 
professionals will know if an allergic or toxic reaction 
was the result of a genetically engineered food. You would deprive me
of the critical knowledge needed to hold food producers liable should 
any of these novel products be hazardous.

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 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.

Please do not bring yourself in a situation that will cause 
harm to the population and will e a heavy load on your own conscience
later in life.

Thank you very much for listening and hopefully for acting
responsible,

Sincerely,

Matthias Zenker


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