Sunday, December 26, 2010

Cloning beef and milk tickles British table

In the recent past, cloned beef and milk, all the way illegally into the United Kingdom warming events also lead to the EU debate on food from cloned animals. In this regard, the EU Commission spokesman Malini Holzner Local 7 said, according to results of the current study, consumption of cloned animal products not harmful to humans.
Holzner in the "Le Parisien" 7 interview published on that, according to current EU regulations, meat and dairy products from cloned animals to be put on the market, must obtain the European Food Safety Authority's special permission. But until now, the EU has not received any applications. However, offspring from cloned animals for food, you do not need any special sales license.
In addition, she also revealed that the European Parliament is currently discussing with the European Commission to ban the cloning of animal food a motion, if the motion is passed, Europe will be a total ban on cloned animals and their offspring from the food.
Beef and milk for the cloning of the table sliding on the news of the UK, the British Food Standards Agency has confirmed a total of eight British "birth" of cattle cloned cow by the head of the United States stem cells "made", in which two bulls of the meat may "have been eaten. " Which one is slaughtered last July, the meat has entered the UK food chain; another one in May this year, was slaughtered, its flesh may have been eaten. Registration of farms specializing in dairy cows and bulls and institutions "Holstein UK" posted on the website on the 5th end and the British American cows have been cloned 97 children.

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