From: Stannous Flouride [stanflouride5@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 10:42 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

The United States has acquired the world's greatest and most profitable food
sources, to risk this, without CAREFUL consideration, both scientific and
economic, risks disaster that should not so casually be dismissed.
I for one, believe that Genetically Altered foods hold great promise but to
not subject to the normal review that any other newly invented food product
requires is just plain foolish.
People will find out which foods contain these untested products whether
they are labelled or not and they will boycott the companies that have used
them in their food products. The recent events around the accidental
introduction of StarLink corn into the human food chain certainly bear this
out.
It cost Frito-Lay millions of dollars in lost and destroyed food and
uncounted millions more in lost consumer confidence.
This is too great a risk to chance, keep the testing in place, PLEASE.

Thank you,
Kevin P Kearney
stanflouride@yahoo.com
1227 Masonic Ave #9
San Francisco, Calif 94117
(415)552-8269