Press Release: European Commission favours temporary suspension of animal cloning for food production in the EU

The European Commission has announced that it will propose a temporary suspension of animal cloning for food production in the EU. The Commission also plans to suspend temporarily the use of cloned farm animals and the marketing of food from clones. All temporary measures will be reviewed after five years. The establishment of a traceability system for imports of reproductive materials for clones, such as semen and embryos of clones is also envisaged. The system will allow farmers and industry to set up database with the animals that would emerge from these reproductive materials.

European Commission: Memo/10/505: Questions and Answers on Cloning http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/501&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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