From: joan adkins [adkinsjoanl@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 9:36 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: comments to the top...

Come on people, You know and we know what's needed here...
It is past time to require health and ecological safety testing and 
mandatory labeling on GE products and foods.  This isn't a question of us 
and them.  Not doing so puts your own health and your own
environment at risk and you don't know what you are eating.  You hold in 
your hands the power to irreparably change the ecosystem and the germ plasm 
that our civilization has to work with.  Has no one in any of your families 
allergies to existing foods?  How long did it take for the doctors to 
determine what was the source of that allergy?  Or have they yet?  Do you 
really think it's in the general public's best interest to increase that 
level of susceptibility to the point that we have no idea what we are 
creating that is making us sick? So, do you choose to act responsibly and 
mandate that all possible safety precautions are met, ensuring that proper 
scientific precautions are screened before these products are responsibly 
put to the consumers in a confident, (Not sneaking in through the back door 
like a thief in the night) labeled manner?  Or is it after all, a question 
of who's in bed with whom, who rides in whose back pocket, how quickly can I 
achieve "success" within this company or placate the interests of these 
corporate powers?  Wake up folks, greater civilizations than ours have 
suffered their demise from failing to ensure a diverse and safe food supply 
existed for their populations.  Does history have to repeat itself with your 
assistance or do you accept the fact that we have encouraged all these great 
men and women to educate themselves in these areas of science so that we can 
in fact listen to them, heeding their warnings of the dangers of not being 
cautious as we proceed through these very precarious waters?  Further 
comments available at above email address.  We don't know each other, but we 
both belong to the same species and our self-preservation should be our main 
concern.  Thank you for reading this.


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