From: Jo Streit [streitpr@sirius.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 4:16 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket ooD-1598

As an American citizen I am alarmed by the FDA's disregard for the public's safety.
Genetically engineered foods must be labeled so consumers have choice and more
importantly they must be TESTED for safety.  The fact that these types of foods
have flooded our grocery shelves with little or no regard for public health is proof
of the overwhelming influence that special interest money has on our public policy.

The FDA needs to do what it should have done to begin with and that is to put 
the health and well-being of the American public first by labeling and testing these
unproven bioengineered foods.  

Jo Streit
69 Lupine Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118