FDA downplays long-term impact of animal cloning
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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 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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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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Batches of human embryonic stem cells available under the strict policies of the U.S. government are contaminated with an animal molecule and are probably no good for using to treat people, scientists reported on Sunday.
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Opponents of the cloning of animals score a major victory when the Senate passes an amendment to the farm bill that would require more research on the safety of cloned meat before it reaches your grocery store. The amendment isn't law yet, though, and still must survive a closed-door meeting between Senate and House committees.
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Reaction from consumer groups was quick and largely negative today as word spread that the Food and Drug Administration had concluded that milk and meat from cloned farm animals is safe to eat.
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With the EU set to enact a ban on animal testing for cosmetics in March 2009, companies are searching for tech alternatives. One team of researchers has developed a small glass chip that may provide a cheap, efficient replacement for some types of animal testing.
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Opponents of cloning animals for food got a boost yesterday as a European ethics body came out against the practice, expressing concerns about the clones' welfare.
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The US could approve cloned animals for use as food in as little as three years, according to experts.
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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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Meat and milk from cloned animals is as safe as that from their counterparts bred the old-fashioned way, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
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Having completed a years-long scientific review, the Food and Drug Administration is set to announce as early as next week that meat and milk from cloned farm animals and their offspring can start making their way toward supermarket shelves, sources in contact with the agency said yesterday.
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Batches of human embryonic stem  cells available under the strict policies of the U.S.  government are contaminated with an animal molecule and are  probably no good for using to treat people, scientists reported  on Sunday.
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By Katherine Griffiths in New York and Stephen Foley in London. The United States&#39; Food and Drug Administration used to be a regulator so trusted that when it waved through the introduction of genetically modified
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A long-awaited final report from the Food and Drug Administration concludes that foods from healthy cloned animals and their offspring are as safe as those from ordinary animals, effectively removing the last U.S. regulatory barrier to the marketing of meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and...
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health, which supports a variety of biomedical studies using animals, will stop breeding government-owned chimpanzees for research -- a step animal rights advocates lauded on Thursday.
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U.S. News & World Report - Would you eat meat or drink milk derived from cloned animals? The question--long the stuff of science fiction--is now one that consumers need to consider seriously. The European Food Safety Authority announced Friday that it considers food from clones safe to eat. In the United States, meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to lift a voluntary moratorium issued in 2001 on food products that come from livestock that originated in a petri dish. Companies selling the clones promote the animals' ability to provide superior offspring to livestock breeders, for example. U.S. ...