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Article: FDA: Preliminary exam suggests cloned meat safe; FDA says it is not yet planning to allow cloned animals to enter 'the food chain'
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Meat or milk derived from healthy cloned farm
animals appears safe to eat, the Food and Drug Administration said
Friday in its first attempt at assessing questions about the emerging
technology.
That doesn't mean Americans will be eating cloned meat any time
soon, if ever.
FDA wants public reaction to its assessment before it decides if
cloned farm animals will require government approval before being
sold as food - a decision expected to take another year.
The still-fledgling industry - there are at most a few hundred
cloned farm animals alive - has voluntarily agreed for the past
several years not to allow any products from cloned animals into the
food supply.
"We're not ...