European Agency: Cloned Animals 'Unlikely' to Pose Risks
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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 US food safety authority on Tuesday approved meat and milk from cloned animals, clearing the way for them one day to appear in shops despite opposition on ethical and health grounds.
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University of Pittsburgh scientists have cloned monkey embryos from adult cells, but the clones failed to survive when implanted in surrogate mothers.
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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 g...
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Leading scientists have urged peers not to block the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for research.
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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 fear is that (scientists) are trying to breed a human with some other creature"  British authorities decided Wednesday to permit research that uses animal eggs to create human stem cells - studies experts say are critical to unlocking treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other ... via The South Mississippi Sun Herald
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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. ...
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Britain's leading scientific institution said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty banning human cloning. The London-based Royal Society is stepping up its drive to push the United Nations to ban the cloning of babies, but to make no ruling on using the technology for medical research, or therapeutic cloning, at its 59th General Session in October. The 191-nation U.N. General Assembly is divided over whether to allow therapeutic cloning to continue or to adopt a broad cloning ban championed by the Bush administration and Costa Rica with strong backing from the U.S. anti-abortion movement and many predominantly Roman Catholic nations.
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With the Food and Drug Administration having declared that meat and milk from cloned animals are safe, opponents of food from clones are shifting their fight to how such fare is labeled.
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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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The research is based on experiments with mice, but if it is borne out in other species, it may suggest that no part of an infected animal is safe to eat.
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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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Transplanting pig organs into humans may be much safer than previously thought, a study suggests.
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Pig embryos could provide sources of  new organ and tissue transplants for people, and they may pose  fewer risks than using material from adult animals, Israeli  researchers reported on Monday.
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Just days after being told that milk and meat from cloned livestock were safe for human consumption, Europeans were warned that cloning causes suffering to the animals.
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U.S. scientists announce that they have cloned human embryos  -  to little fanfare. They weren't the first, though, and they won't be the last.