Cloned Meat Entered Food Chain Last Year: FSA

The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed that meat from a cloned animal entered the food chain last year.

The statement follows denials from the dairy industry and the Department for Agriculture that milk or meat from cloned animals or their offspring had ever entered the food chain.

Earlier a US newspaper reported a farmer had illegally sold milk from the offspring of a cloned cow.

European law requires foodstuffs produced from cloned animals to pass a safety evaluation and obtain authorisation.

The FSA, the body responsible for food safety assessment, has not been asked to consider any such cases.