From:	Karlie Dziuk [karlied@freedomofspeech.com]
Sent:	Sunday, April 01, 2001 12:56 PM
To:	fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject:	Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

FOR THE SAKE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS


* 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.
The proposed rules must be changed to:

* Require mandatory pre-market safety testing
* Require pre-market environmental review
* Require mandatory labeling of GE foods
* Ensure public access to adequate information 
for independent review

From: Karlie Dziuk Schaaf, representing myself, my husband and my four children who should have the right to know what is in our food and make our own choices with that information.