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Article: Despite FDA okay, food from cloned animals is years away from stores shelves
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 2, 2007
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Despite a government endorsement, food from cloned animals could
take years to reach supermarket shelves.
But the biotechnology companies believe ranchers, dairy producers
and others now will be more willing to pay upward of $16,000 per
clone following last week's tentative approval by the Food and Drug
Administration to use the technology to produce food.
Although no law bars cloned food, the companies and their
customers have for the past three years voluntarily withheld sales
of cloned-derived food pending the FDA review.
An 800-page FDA report concluded Thursday there is no difference
between cloned and conventionally produced food.
The initial milk, beef and pork products on the ...