EU FAILS TO AGREE BAN ON MEAT FROM CLONED ANIMALS AND THEIR OFFSPRING
March 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TALKS to agree a new European Union (EU) novel food regulation, which could have banned the use of meat from cloned animals and their offspring collapsed this week (Monday Mar 28). It means that the current novel foods law, adopted in 1997, remains in force, with no outright ban on using these meats in the EU.
The EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament had been trying to agree a compromise text that ironed out their differences over the cloned animal issue - but they failed. MEPs offered a compromise allowing cloned offspring meat, ...
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