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Fear and cloning.

Publication: Regulation
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Fear and cloning.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(genetically engineered foods)

Article Excerpt
After six years of deliberation, last January the Food and Drug Administration finally--and rightly--concluded that food from cloned animals is safe and may be sold and consumed. This decision, which ended a "voluntary" moratorium on commercialization by companies that produce clones, was based on voluminous and persuasive scientific data. But two things took the luster off the announcement.

First, it was far too long in coming. Scientists--including those at the FDA--have known for years that the clones are indistinguishable genetically, biochemically, and nutritionally from the parent.

Second, on the very day that the decision was announced, another federal agency attempted to undo the positive effects of the FDA's proclamation. While not quibbling with the consensus about safety, Bruce I. Knight, under secretary of agriculture for...

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