From: mplouf@juno.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 7:38 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov

Subject:
"Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598"

THE FDA MUST INSIST THAT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS 
BE LABELED AND TESTED FOR SAFETY!

Your proposed rules for regulating genetically engineered products puts
my health and my environment at terrible risk, and deprives me of the
right to know and choose what I am eating. Therefore, it is my
constitutional right 
TO DEMAND:

* The FDA 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  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 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 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 GIVE THIS YOUR #1 ATTENTION. YOU HAVE DEPRIVED US OF OUR
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT "TO KNOW" FAR TOO LONG.

Sincerely,
M. Plouf
1024 Laguna Drive, #9
Carlsbad, CA 92008
760-434-9476
mplouf@juno.com