From: stuart zisman [stuzisman@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 12:32 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov

Dear FDA,

I am a professor of public health who teaches about
genetically engineered food to my classes. Students
are very upset with internal documents that show how
poorly you regulate this area and in the past how you
have ignored the concerns of your own internal
scientists to cater to big business. In the
automobile, tobacco and chemical industries
investigative reporting and subsequent court cases
have documented how big business has ignored health
threats to the public or their own employees to
satisfy corporate greed. In many cases that has
amounted to human sacrifice for someone else's profit.
We already know Mansanto lied about their rBGH
testing, but were able to "buy" regulations to keep
milk from being labelled as free from this potential
carcinogenic chemical. 

There is really no need for hearings. You know what to
do if you really care about serving the public or what
you will do if you ignore the cautious and honest
approach needed in favor of promoting the interest of
big business without regard to safety issues. What it
comes down to is whether this agency will value human
life or not or go along with the increasing disregard
to serve the public in favor of private interests.

Dr. Stuart Zisman
Dept of Public Health 
Jackson State University

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