Food From Cloned Animals Seems Safe, a Panel Finds
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Meat and milk from cloned animals seem to pose no special health risks, said a report released by the European Food Safety Agency. It was a first step toward the eventual sale of such products within the European Union.
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Cloning animals will not be useful on a  large scale but the technology offers farmers an important tool  to increase food production and protect animals from disease,  scientists said on Tuesday.
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The US could approve cloned animals for use as food in as little as three years, according to experts.
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A new database will allow food companies to identify a cloned animal as it moves through the food supply chain from farm to slaughterhouse, two of the largest U.S. livestock cloning companies said on Wednesday.
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Responding to consumer queasiness about eating meat and drinking milk from cloned animals, and frustrated by continued delays in the government approval process, the nation's two largest cloning companies will today roll out a voluntary program aimed at helping shoppers avoid food from clones.
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Meat and milk from most cloned animals are safe to eat, the Food and Drug Administration announced today. According to a final risk assessment, the FDA finds no safety risks in meat from healthy cloned cows, pigs or goats or milk from cloned cows. Because cloned animals are expensive, it may be years before foods from clones reach store shelves.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as Food and Drug Administration officials announced that food from cloned livestock is safe to eat.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to make a final ruling on Tuesday that food from cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as any other, opening the door to the controversial technology in the U.S. food supply.
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Meat and milk products of offspring from the 600 cloned animals in the United States most likely have not entered the nation's food supply, an official with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday, as the agency downplayed the long-term impact of cloning.
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With the Food and Drug Administration having declared that meat and milk from cloned animals are safe, opponents of food from clones are shifting their fight to how such fare is labeled.
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The nation's two largest animal cloning companies are teaming up to voluntarily create a system to create a registry of their animals. The system would also require that cloned meat be identified to consumers.
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Meat and milk from cloned animals is as safe as that from their counterparts bred the old-fashioned way, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday Â but sales still won't begin right away.
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Europe's leading food safety agency   advised consumers on Friday that eating rice with trace amounts   of an unauthorized genetically modified (GMO) strain was   unlikely to pose a health risk to humans or animals.
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The nation's biggest milk company, Dean Foods, said Thursday it will refuse milk from cloned cows. The Food and Drug Administration gave preliminary approval to meat and milk from cloned animals and could grant final approval by the end of the year. Federal scientists say there is virtually no difference between clones and conventional cows, pigs or goats.
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Pig embryos could provide sources of  new organ and tissue transplants for people, and they may pose  fewer risks than using material from adult animals, Israeli  researchers reported on Monday.
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Europe's top food safety agency has been asked to determine whether meat and milk from cloned animals are safe to eat, European Commission officials said on Thursday.
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Food and Drug Administration officials today announced that food from cloned animals is safe to eat even as their counterparts in the Agriculture Department asked producers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely.