From: jacqui bishop [jbishop@bestweb.net]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:24 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: "Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598"

It is time that the fox is removed from supervising the hen house.

GE foods are dangerous as a category.

I am appalled that Europe is establishing and enforcing higher 
standards than the US.

You at the FDA must protect us: It's your job. I'm scared about the 
health of myself, my children, and my grandchildren. Here's what I 
want you to require:

Mandatory pre-market comprehensive
   environmental review. Unlike conventional pollutants,
   where a given amount of pollutant causes a limited amount
   of damage, a small number of mutant genes could have a
   population explosion and reproduce forever, causing
   unlimited and irreparable damage.

Mandatory pre-market long-term health
   testing. GE products could be toxic, cause allergic
   responses, have lower nutritional value, and compromise
   immune responses in consumers.

Mandatory labeling of GE products.

   Without mandatory labeling, neither consumers nor health
   professionals can know if an allergic or toxic reaction
   was the result of a genetically engineered food. Consumers
   are deprived of the critical knowledge needed to hold
   food producers liable should any of these novel products
   be hazardous.

Please end the conflicts of interest that you have with the industries
   you purport to be regulating. People have been allowed to
   work for a biotech company, then work for the FDA writing the
   regulatory rules on that company's product, then go back to
   working for the company.  Ninety-two percent of FDA advisory
   committee meetings had at least one conflict of interest.
-- 
Jacqui Bishop
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