From: Valerie Sarver [valsarver@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 5:13 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Cc: drew@eco-odyssey.com
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

To Whom it May Concern;

I understand you are accepting input from Americans,
so I am sending an email to let you know that I feel
strongly that genetically engineered products must be
labeled and tested for safety.  In summary:

* 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.

Thank you for your consideration in this important
matter.

Regards,
Val Sarver



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