FDA says cloned animals safe for food
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Just over a decade after scientists cloned the first animal, the last major barrier to selling meat and milk from clones has fallen: The U.S. government declared this food safe Tuesday. Now, will people buy it?
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A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs
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Now that the FDA has declared clones edible, scientists have unveiled a commercial genetic test for identifying and tracking cloned animals from the farm to the hamburger.
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Regulatory approval could catalyze the nascent U.S. cloning industry, but leading firms say growth would come slowly as they battle to win consumers over to the concept of food from cloned animals.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved using an antibiotic originally designed for humans to help treat skin infections suffered by dogs.
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U.S. researchers said on Sunday they  had found a more efficient way to clone mice, and said their  experiment solved a basic question about cloning science --  whether it truly is possible to clone animals from mature  cells.
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Meat and milk from cloned animals seem to pose no special health risks, said a report released by the European Food Safety Agency. It was a first step toward the eventual sale of such products within the European Union.
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Researchers have cloned healthy mice from skin cells for the first time.
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A new database will allow food  companies to identify a cloned animal as it moves through the  food supply chain from farm to slaughterhouse, two of the  largest U.S. livestock cloning companies said on Wednesday.
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Flies are the latest animals to be cloned, the journal Genetics reports.
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The largest U.S. dairy processor and distributor said even if food products from cloned animals become a reality, it will not sell milk from animals that have been cloned because of ongoing consumer concerns.
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Responding to consumer queasiness about eating meat and drinking milk from cloned animals, and frustrated by continued delays in the government approval process, the nation's two largest cloning companies will today roll out a voluntary program aimed at helping shoppers avoid food from clones.
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The Food and Drug Administration should delay a decision on whether milk and meat from some cloned animals are safe to eat until additional safety studies can be conducted, a Democratic lawmaker and consumer groups said in separate statements on Tuesday.
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The 600 cloned animals in the United  States most likely have not produced offspring, an official  with the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday, as the  agency downplayed the long-term impact cloning will have on the  food supply.
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The Food and Drug Administration this week proposed a regulation to improve the safety of shell eggs on the farm. Specifically the aim is to significantly reduce the number of illness caused by eggs contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis (SE).
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ruled food from certain cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as other food, opening the door for using the controversial technology in the U.S. food supply.
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Scientists may be allowed to clone embryos from donated tissues without the need for "express" consent.