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...Veterinary Medicine (CVM) asked livestock producers voluntarily keep food from clones and their offspring out of the food supply. The agency, ensuring the safety of the nation's food supply and safeguards animal health, began an intensive evaluation to determine whether cloning posed any risks to the animals or food from the animals that differed from risks presented by other assisted reproductive technologies currently used in U.S. agriculture.
"The issuance of these three documents does not lift the voluntary moratorium on introducing food from clones or their offspring into the food supply," says CVM Director Stephen F. Sundlof, D.V.M., Ph.D. "Because the release of these documents marks the beginning of our interaction with the public on these issues, we are continuing to ask producers of clones and livestock breeders to abide by the voluntary moratorium until we have had the opportunity to consider the public's comments and to issue any final documents."
What Is a Clone?
Despite their portrayal in science fiction books and movies, "animal clones don't spring forth fully formed, and they aren't even grown in test tubes," says Larisa Rudenko, Ph.D., a molecular biologist and senior...
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