From: aloes knows [aloesknows@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 12:21 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: GE




>From: "didier thomas" >>
>>* 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.
>>
Didier THOMAS,MD
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