In USA allowed to sell meat and milk cloned animals

LookInfo.org.ua reports, the U.S. government allowed the manufacture and sale of animal clones derived from food. Meat and milk of cloned cows, pigs, goats and their offspring are as safe as other foods.


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Such a final conclusion, the Office for American products and medicines (FDA) issued as a result of the more than seven hundred scientific research on the subject. This decision has confirmed published last December, the preliminary findings on the issue. In addition, the European agency for food safety (European Food Safety Authority, EFSA) last week was done on a similar declaration.

Meanwhile, it seems unlikely picture of the rich abundance of meat of cloned animals on the American market. This contributed and economic reasons - the production of cloned animals is quite expensive exercise. For example, to create a single cloned cows need to spend not less than ten thousand dollars. At this point in the United States there are about 570 cloned animals.

It is the use of cloned animals in the first place prize for the breeding of dairy cows.
At the same counters will be received meat and milk, has already received from their progeny. And, as experts note, in this case, the producers of these foods could not specify the origin labels on their products from cloned animals.

Statement by the Office for American products and drugs was seen in the bayonets representatives of the various organizations that have a task to protect the rights of consumers. Their view is that to date there is insufficient number of scientific data, allowing the unambiguous talk about the safety of food derived from cloned animals. Some major food companies, supported this view and said that their companies are not planned production and sale of such products.
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