From: Butterflyqi@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 5:47 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket OON-1396 &Docket 00D 1598

 As a citizen, and and a registered nurse dedicated to wellness promotion and 
good nutrition, I urge you to use caution, be conservative, and insist on 
scrupulous reporting and testing, with clear labeling of geneticly engineered 
food and food products.  The science of genetic manipulation is in its 
infancy, and we may later pay dearly for what is now wrought in ignorance.  
Did not Mdme Curie die from exposure to the very elements she studied so 
intensely?   Did we at first think xrays were harmless, to the point that 
fluoroscopy was available in Red Goose Shoe store
for children to "see" the bones in their feet?   Thank you for your serious 
consideration and attention to this issue.  Patricia A. Dempsey