EFSA LAUNCHES CLONED ANIMAL FOOD SAFETY PROBE
March 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCIENTIFIC committee of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a probe into to the potential negative effects on food safety of using cloned animals to make meat and dairy products. The agency wants to release an assessment by June, and so is calling for environmental health officers to pass on by April 30 "relevant information which has become available since January 2008". E-mails to david.carlander@efsa.europa.eu
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THE SCIENTIFIC committee of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a probe into to the potential negative effects on food safety of using cloned animals to make meat and dairy products. The agency wants to release an assessment by June, and so is calling for environmental health officers to pass on by April 30 "relevant information which has become available since January 2008". E-mails to david.carlander@efsa.europa.eu
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