Meat and milk from cloned animals are safe

2008/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Bioteknologia
• Abeltzaintza
• Dietetika/Elikagaiak
• Osasuna

A year ago, the FDA, the U.S. organization responsible for the admission of food and medicine, declared that meat and milk from cloned animals were safe to eat. However, production companies of this type of animal were asked not to commercialize these products. Apparently, a contrary attitude was envisaged by consumers and more tests were also wanted (they had been investigating for four years).

Now, the EFSA, the body responsible for food security in Europe, has affirmed the same thing as the FDA, that products of cloned cattle and their descendants do not harm people and, therefore, are edible. Following this, the FDA has ratified what was approved last year, as research carried out during this period reinforced the results of the previous ones.

Consumers who want to try out statements, meat or milk from cloned cattle will have to wait because they will not yet be marketed. And if they are ever sold, they will surely be very expensive, since few animals are generated by cloning.