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Friday, October 31, 2003

The clones are coming

Cloned farm animals and their offspring pose little scientific risk to the food supply, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded in a new report that could pave the way for allowing products derived from clones or their offspring onto the nation's grocery shelves.

The draft report, to be released in summary form this morning and discussed at an FDA advisory committee meeting next week, is likely to kick off a fresh national debate about just how far to go in manipulating nature to achieve human ends. Nearly a year behind schedule, the report moves the agency closer to a formal declaration that cloning, the technology that produced Dolly the sheep, is permissible as a routine tool of American agricultural production.

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posted by chris at 1:53 PM
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