From: nana tchitchoua [nanuka29@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 8:03 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

To The Food and Drug Administration: I want to know
what I am eating!! GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS 
MUST BE LABELED AND TESTED FOR SAFETY!

  Despite overwhelming consumer demand, the FDA
has failed to require health and ecological safety
testing 
or mandatory labeling, and thus puts my health and our

environment at risk and deprives Americans of the
right to know 
or choose what you are eating.

The proposed rules:

* Do not require mandatory pre-market safety testing
* Do not require pre-market environmental review
* Do not require mandatory labeling of GE foods
* Restrict voluntary labeling of non-GE foods
* Require a mere letter of notification prior to the 
  marketing of a GE food
* Fail to ensure public access to adequate information

  for independent review
* Are supported by industry and opposed by consumer
groups

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


* The FDA must require mandatory pre-market
comprehensive 
  environmental review.

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 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.
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* The FDA must require 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.

* The FDA must require mandatory labeling of GE
products. 
  Without mandatory labeling, neither consumers nor
health 
  professionals will know if an allergic or toxic
reaction 
  was the result of a genetically engineered food.
Consumers 
  would be deprived of the critical knowledge needed
to hold 
  food producers liable should any of these novel
products 
  be hazardous.
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* The FDA must end its cozy relationship with the
industries
  it purports to be regulating. It is my understanding
that 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!



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