Sunday, March 6, 2011

Cloned Animals: No Choice for Consumers in the EU

Consumers shall have no choice

EU Commissioner for Trade: Products from offspring of cloned animals already on the market

3. March 2011
Munich, Bruxelles

A non-public EU Commission paper confirms that food from offsprings of cloned animals are already on the European market. The animals get into the market via the import of breeding material from the US. The EU Trade Commission argues that in future too these products should not be regulated, labelled or controlled for unexpected risks, because so far no systems have been established for registering the animals in exporting countries such as the US. If the EU Commission succeeds, consumers within the EU will not get any information about these products like milk and meat, despite a high level of consumer rejection of cloning of animals for food production...[Full Article]