From: Jennifer Smith [jmsmith@oddjob.uchicago.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 2:23 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: re: dockets 00N-1396 and OOD-1598

FDA Commissioner Jane Henney
Dockets Management Branch (HFA 305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fisher's Lane, Room 1061
Rockville, MD 20852


We are in a potentially catastrophic situation. The introduction of
untested, genetically modified organisms into the food supply is a risk
that frankly, millions of Americans are not willing to take.

These "foods" must be labelled. They must be tested. We need comprehensive
data that will tell us:

1) What particular modifications are in which crops.

2) A means of identifying trouble, warning people of dangers, and returning
to the source of the genetically dangerous "foods."

Your administration is responsible for safeguarding our food supplies. You
must institute labelling and tracking of genetically modified products. We
are not guinea pigs for corporations. We are American citizens with a right
to know what we and our developing children are ingesting. Failure to act
may later be seen as a crime against the health and welfare of the American
people, tantamount to treason.

We have a right to know, and to buy or to not buy food based upon that
knowledge.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith
AAC 140
4-0393