FDA says food from cloned animals safe to eat
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ruled that food from cloned cattle, pigs and goats and their offspring is as safe as any other food.
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A person could consume 800 pounds of meat in a single day from animals that ate feed made with tainted pet food before having any health effects from the toxins in that pet food, government scientists said yesterday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration is expected to make a final ruling on Tuesday  that food from cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as  any other, opening the door to the controversial technology in  the U.S. food supply.
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Europe's leading food safety agency   advised consumers on Friday that eating rice with trace amounts   of an unauthorized genetically modified (GMO) strain was   unlikely to pose a health risk to humans or animals.
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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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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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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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Flies are the latest animals to be cloned, the journal Genetics reports.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to make a final ruling on Tuesday that food from cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as any other, opening the door to the controversial technology in the U.S. food supply.
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The European Food Safety Authority this morning said it has concluded that meat and milk from healthy cloned cattle and pigs is "very unlikely" to pose risks to consumers, opening the door to possible European sales of those controversial foods in the future.
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The European Food Safety Authority yesterday declared that meat and milk from healthy cloned cattle and pigs is "very unlikely" to pose risks to consumers, opening the door to possible European sales of those controversial foods in the future.
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The U.S. green-lights the use of products derived from cloned animals while testing continues, but the nation's biggest milk producer opposes it. Plus: Sanyo earnings probe... Illinois Senate passes stem cell bill... and more.
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Meat and milk from cloned animals is probably safe for humans, the European Union's food safety agency said in a preliminary report released Friday. The report, by the European Food Safety Authority, seems likely to fuel new debate over whether the EU should allow cloned animals to enter the food chain.
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Scientists have cloned a gene from wild wheat that they hope could boost the nutritional value of bread and pasta and help fight world hunger, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.
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Federal food safety officials said fresh spinach is "as safe as it was before the outbreak," even though investigators have not determined the cause of a deadly E. coli outbreak.
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The FDA approves meat from cloned animals for human consumption and does not require special labeling.
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A mix of bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials said Friday in granting the first-ever approval of viruses as a food additive.