CLONED ANIMALS
October 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
THIS past year, a senior American scientific panel studied the idea of consumers
eating food derived from cloned animals and they came up with an answer. At the end of the summer, they said they could find nothing unsafe about it.
Many observers are curious to hear how the US Food and Drug Administration will respond. After this study emerged, the Washington Post predicted that an existing informal moratorium would be lifted by the end of this year, although this has not been confirmed.
The National Academy of Sciences says no evidence yet ...
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