FDA Confirms Meat from Cloned Animals is Safe
by ashley.woods4.
The FDA has finally concluded that food that comes from healthy cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as meat from ordinary animals. Thus, removing the US regulatory barrier to the marketing of meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and goats.
The final risk assessment finds no evidence that supports the concern of hidden risks harbored in food from
cloned animals.
For the risk assessment to be completed, the FDA had to collect data from nearly 600 U.S. farms. The risk assessment faced challenges because the farms were scattered throughout the country and many scientist were using different methods in order to clone.
The agency report includes hundreds of pages of raw data so that others, who are wary of food from clones, can see how the agency came to its conclusions.
Other issues other than health concern are also acknowledged by the agency, but they are not expanded on.
"Moral, religious and ethical concerns . . . have been raised," the agency notes in a document accompanying the report. But the risk assessment is "strictly a science-based evaluation," it reports, because the agency is not authorized by law to consider those issues.
Despite all the controversy, it will be years before meat from clones will be available on store shelves. Part of the reason it will take years is due to the fact that the clones are very valuable. Too valuable to slaughter and sell the meat. As of now, the pricey animals will be used for breeding purposes. Proponents say the offspring of the clones will be an entirely new generation of superior farm animals since they were bred from some of the finest farm animals ever born.
FDA says they may not require food from clones to be labeled as such, but they may allow food from ordinary animals to be labeled as not from clones.
FDA Confirms Meat from Cloned Animals is Safe
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