From: Linda Ruth [LRuth@singlecopysales.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 9:22 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

To whom it may concern:

Please keep the wishes of the consumer in mind as you create regulations on
GE foods.  It is absolutely beyond belief, whatever members' personal
interests may be, that they would feel that they can violate consumer wishes
with such impunity.  This is a democracy, and if attention is only paid to
financially powerful special interests you must expect an enormous backlash.
Please note:

* The FDA should require mandatory pre-market comprehensive
  environmental review of GE products.

* The FDA should require mandatory pre-market long-term health
  testing.

* The FDA MUST require mandatory labeling of GE products.
  Whatever the FDA, led by its biotech allies, believes, it is not up to
them to choose for us.  Rightly or wrongly, consumers have to be allowed to
make their own choices.

* The FDA MUST end its cozy relationship with the industries
  it purports to be regulating. The appearance of conflict of interest is
unbelievable, and totally undermines the credibility of the FDA.  If the
conflict is not there, avoid the appearance.

Sincerely,

Linda Ruth