From: Mabel Pattison [mabel_@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 9:43 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 and Docket 00D-1598

Genetically Engineered Products MUST be labeled and tested for safety!

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:
I accidently inhaled a strong amount of bug spray as the florida truck was 
spraying our neighborhood for mosquitos.  I experienced a pain in the left 
side of my body.  Not associating this with the spray, I thought to myself 
that I might be experiencing cancer.  Later in the week I overheard a 
neighbor talking to someone that she had pain in an area on her left side.  
She went to the doctor because she thought something serious was wrong.  He 
did tests and took x-rays but could not find a problem.  I was relieved 
because I knew it was from the bug spray.  I close my windows when I know 
the truck is coming around to spray the area. (By the way - I do not smoke, 
nor drink alcoholic beverages, nor take any medicine.)

ANOTHER INCIDENT: I again felt the pain in the same place and thought to 
myself "this cannot be - I have not been exposed to spray".  But I had been 
putting a lot of soy powder in my orange juice.  Oh-Oh The sow powder is 
probably genetically altered.  I called the company and indeed it is 
20%-$40% altered soy.  (Previously I was taking soy from a herbologist with 
no problems but I had run out and went to a health food store to get some).  
I talked to a lady on the phone about v-8 veg juice, she did not know if v-8 
used genetically altered ingredients or not, however she and her daughter 
had been having lots of problems similar to mine.  It so happens they love 
taco's (she had been unaware of the Taco Bell problem) and popcorn.  Well 
she said she went to the doctor and he could find nothing wrong.  She was 
very thankful to me because she said it clears up a lot of her problems now. 
  I talked to another friend and she said she experienced the same symptoms 
I did. She eats a lot of popcorn.  Since then she stopped.

YOU MUST let us make our food choices.  PLEASE - You must require labeling 
of genetically altered food.  We are in a food crisis.  I did not even know 
about animal products in cow feed etc. until the mayhem in England.  I 
assumed that we fed our livestock grain.  What a dummy I am. Pretty soon we 
will not be able to even plant seeds to grow our own gardens because we will 
have no idea if they have been genetically altered.

THIS is an EMERGENCY - Demand labelling. You, me and our families depend on 
you doing what is right.

Mabel Pattison
St Cloud, Fl 34771
mabel@compuserve.com
or
mabel_@hotmail.com

http://www.oscstudent.cc.fl.us/mpattison
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