From: MOMMYBODE@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:00 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598
My infant son had his first taste of "baby food" in November of 1999.  Since 
that time he has been plagued with bouts of eczema.  Raw, oozing, itching, 
cracking, bleeding skin were a major part of his young life, at least until I 
took Genetically Engineered foods out of his life. 

I didn't know it at the time, but when he started his first foods, the soy 
in Gerber's baby cereals, an infants very first solid food, contained GE Soy. 
 As time has passed, I have found that so many other baby staples (dry 
cereal, crackers etc.) were also loaded with GE allergens.  When a parent 
introduces foods to a normal infant, we do it one food at a time.  With an 
allergenic child, we break it down to individual ingredients, as their little 
systems are so sensitive.  All of my attempts at elimination diets failed 
because I did not have the knowledge of what he was really eating.  Had I 
known brand A was GE and brand B wasn't, I would have been able to save him 
from much misery.   Why shouldn't I be told? 

As more and more GE foods are pushed on us, how are we citizens who have 
multiple allergies supposed to find food that will not make us sick?  Where 
is the control?  Why can't we be told what's in our foods?