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Article: FDA report: Cloned animals safe for food supply.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2006
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Byline: Jeremy Manier
CHICAGO _ Supporters of cloning livestock have maintained for years that meat and milk from cloned cattle look and taste the same as food that comes from animals made the old-fashioned way.
On Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took that claim a step further by issuing a report that concludes cloned animals are as safe to eat as ordinary livestock. The FDA's official risk assessment could clear the way within the next year for approval of food products from cloned animals and their offspring.
In fact, the scientific review was positive enough that the main bar to FDA authorization may be an American public that ...