Cloned Puppies

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union announced plans on Tuesday to temporarily ban the use of animal cloning for food production, while allowing imports of food derived from the offspring of clones from the United States and elsewhere.The report from the European Commission followed a call by EU lawmakers in July for a total ban on food derived from cloned animals and their traditionally bred offspring, citing ethical concerns over the industrial production of cloned meat.The Commission...Read Full Story

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's food watchdog said it had found that meat from the offspring of a cloned cow had entered the UK food chain and had been eaten, stirring controversy over whether such products are ethical.The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that under European rules, suppliers are supposed to obtain a license before selling products from cloned animals but added there was no suggestion they posed any health danger to consumers."While there is no evidence that consuming...Read Full Story

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's food watchdog said it had found that meat from the offspring of a cloned cow had entered the UK food chain and had been eaten, stirring controversy over whether such products are ethical.The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that under European rules, suppliers are supposed to obtain a license before selling products from cloned animals but added there was no suggestion they posed any health danger to consumers."While there is no evidence that consuming...Read Full Story

Meat from two bulls which were the offspring of a cloned cow have entered the food chain in Britain, officials admitted Wednesday, as they continued to investigate further possible breaches.The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that meat from two bulls, Parable and Dundee Paratrooper, "will have been eaten".The animals were among eight cattle conceived using eight embryos harvested from a cloned cow in the United States, it said.The news has fuelled debate in Britain about the ethics and...Read Full Story

Food safety officials in Britain are to investigate a claim that milk from the offspring of a cloned cow was on sale for public consumption, they said Monday.The disclosure has provoked concern among some farming campaigners, and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is set to investigate a report in Friday's International Herald Tribune newspaper.But the body which represents Britain's dairy industry insisted that there was no danger.The newspaper quoted a British dairy farmer, speaking...Read Full Story

Food safety officials are to investigate a claim that milk from the offspring of a cloned cow was on sale for public consumption, they said Monday.The disclosure has provoked concern among some farming campaigners, and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is set to investigate a report in Friday's International Herald Tribune newspaper.But the body which represents Britain's dairy industry insisted that there was no danger.The newspaper quoted a British dairy farmer, speaking anonymously, saying...Read Full Story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Talks within the European Union broke down on Tuesday over how to deal with food from cloned animals, sending EU proposals on the sale of new types of foods back to the drawing board after three years of debate.Following all-night negotiations in Brussels, EU lawmakers were ready to drop their demand for a ban on the sale of food from the conventionally bred offspring of cloned animals, in return for mandatory labeling for all such products.But EU governments rejected the...Read Full Story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments and lawmakers remained deadlocked on how to regulate the production and sale of food from cloned animals, following all-night talks in Brussels that ended on Thursday morning.EU sources said the remaining sticking point was a demand by lawmakers in the European Parliament for a full EU ban on the sale of food derived from cloned animals and, crucially, their offspring.EU governments and the bloc's executive support an EU ban on the use of...Read Full Story

An EU parliamentary committee on Tuesday rejected a controversial proposal to allow food from cloned animals and their offspring onto the European market.Planned legislation drawn up by the European Commission would authorise the sale of so-called "novel foods", made using algae or plankton, nanotechnology, with genetically modified crops or cloned animals, such as sheep.But the parliament's environment committee voted almost unanimously, by 42 members for and two against with three...Read Full Story

Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk has won a copyright battle over dog-cloning techniques his colleagues said Saturday.A Seoul district court on Friday ruled that his cloning technology is different from procedures patented by the Seoul National University.RNL Bio, which bought the patent from the university, filed a lawsuit against the Sooam Biotech Research Center led by Hwang a year ago after Hwang's team produced cloned dogs for a foreign biotech company."The court accepted...Read Full Story