USDA asks cloning firms to extend marketing ban

Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:43pm EST
 
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department asked cloning firms on Tuesday to extend a voluntary moratorium on marketing meat and milk from cloned animals.

USDA made the request as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a final risk assessment on the cloning technology, which found food from cloned cattle, swine and goats is as safe as food from conventionally bred animals.

 

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