If there are no long term studies on the consumption of food from clones, why is FDA concluding that it is safe to consume these cloned animals and their offspring?
Cloning doesn’t put any new substances into an animal, so there’s no “new” substance to test. Feeding milk or meat from clones to lab animals as part of a regular diet wouldn’t let us tell whether any negative outcomes observed were due to the food from clones or from something else the lab animals came across. It isn’t possible to have someone (or even lab animals) eat only meat or drink only milk. Doing so would not provide a healthful diet and would likely cause illness.
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- Now that FDA has concluded that food from clones from specified species and from clone progeny is as safe as food from conventionally-bred species, is FDA lifting the voluntary moratorium?
- If there are no long term studies on the consumption of food from clones, why is FDA concluding that it is safe to consume these cloned animals and their offspring?
- If FDA thinks food from cloned livestock is safe, why does FDA continue to recommend that food from sheep clones be kept out of the food supply?
