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Article: What's the Beef?; Products from cloned animals are safe.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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THIS MONTH, the Food and Drug Administration finally released its
long-awaited, 968-page, hundreds-of-studies-deep, thousands-of-data-
points-thick final assessment of the safety of products from cloned
animals. It declared that products from cloned cattle, swine and
goats and their progeny are no different from products from their
conventionally bred counterparts.
The conclusions should have surprised few. Draft report after
draft report and study after study have said the same thing: Food
from cloned animals is safe. Each time similar results were
declared , though, pleas from consumer groups and politicians
prevented the FDA from finalizing its verdict on "frankenfoods."
The continued ...