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_Europe Seeks to Ban Cloned Meat, Milk_

(http://www.slashfood.com/2010/07/09/europe-seeks-to-ban-cloned-meat-milk/)

by _ Lawinski_

(http://www.slashfood.com/bloggers/jennifer-lawinski/) , Posted Jul 9th 2010 @

11:00AM

With the safety and ethics of new food technologies causing concern across

Europe, the European Parliament asked Wednesday for a ban on the sale of

foods from cloned animals and their offspring, the _New York Times_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/business/global/08clone.html?src=busln)

reported.

The group also called for a suspension of foods containing ingredients

created with nanotechnology.

The parliament is looking to create legislation that deals specifically

with cloning because of concerns over the process and animal cruelty, the

Times reported.

" Although no safety concerns have been identified so far with meat

produced from cloned animals, this technique raises serious issues about animal

welfare, reduction of biodiversity, as well as ethical concerns, " said

Corinne Lepage, a French member of the European Parliament.

In 2008 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said there were no inherent

safety problems with meat or milk from cloned animals -- specifically cows,

goats or pigs -- or their offspring, _Slashfood_

(http://www.slashfood.com/2010/05/14/cloned-meat-it-may-already-be-what-s-for-di\

nner/) reported. It

also lifted a moratorium on the sale of meat from cloned animals or their

kin.

In Europe, however, the debate continues and there are no specific EU

rules that ban the sale of dairy products or meat from animal clones, the Times

reported.

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It is also possible that cloned meat has crossed the Atlantic and wound up

on European plates, Struan son, a British member of the European

Parliament, told the _Times_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/business/global/08clone.html?src=busln) .

Bull semen imported from the U.S. and used to

impregnate European cows could also have come from clones, he said.

son called for labels on imported meat saying that it could be from

clones if a test can't be developed to identify cloned meat, the Times

reported.

Jaydee Hanson, policy analysts for the Center for Food Safety, told

_Slashfood_

(http://www.slashfood.com/2010/05/14/cloned-meat-it-may-already-be-what-s-for-di\

nner/#ixzz0t7NKH86P) that its the offspring of clones -- which

are expensive to develop -- present a bigger challenge to food regulators

than the original clones.

" You have a new technology that really is untested, " he said. " You don't

know what's going to crop up. They really should be looking at four, five,

six generations. "