From: EXECSEC
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:53 PM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598



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> From: 	Lisa Valdmets[SMTP:LISA.VALDMETS@SMS.SIEMENS.COM]
> Sent: 	Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:52:52 PM
> To: 	Commissioner
> Subject: 	Docket # 00N-1396 and #00D-1598
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Commissioner ,

I am EXTREMELY CONCERNED that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has proposed regulations that still
fail to require labels or safety tests on genetically
engineered (GE) food. Labels on GE foods are required
in Japan, Russia, and throughout Europe, yet your new
proposal continues to deny Americans the right to know what
is in our food and WHAT we are feeding our children.
 

Labels must be required to protect the public from potential
health effects that could only be traced if GE foods can be
identified, yet FDA?s "voluntary labeling" guidelines will
leave thousands of unlabeled GE foods on our supermarket
shelves. Furthermore, the agency?s proposed rule only
requires companies to notify FDA when bringing GE foods
to market, but it fails to require any safety testing.
Doctors and scientists have warned about the potential for
GE foods to trigger dangerous allergies, change the
nutritional value of foods, and cause irreversible harm to
the environment. FDA appears to be playing politics with
our food, disregarding science-based precautions that other
countries have implemented.


I urge you to reconsider this proposal and insure that GE
foods are labeled.
American children deserve the same protections as the rest of the
world. We deserve some respect 
to be able to make a fairly simple choice of what 
we want or don't want to eat. There needs to be long term health effect 
studies done regarding the consumption of 
these products by humans.. and until there are answers these biotech "foods" need 
to be immediately removed from the food supply.  It is the health of our 
children at stake here, how can you compromise their health, their future?? 


Lisa Valdmets
27540
lisa.valdmets@sms.siemens.com