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britons fret as meat from cloned cow offspring eaten
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the food standards agency (fsa) said that under european rules, suppliers are supposed to obtain a license before selling products from cloned animals but added there was no suggestion they posed any health danger to consumers. "while there is no evidence that consuming products from healthy clones, or their offspring, poses a food safety risk, meat and products from (them) are considered novel foods and would therefore need to be authorized before being placed on the market," the fsa said. it had traced two bulls born in britain which began life as embryos harvested from a cloned cow in the united states, and one was slaughtered in july last year. "meat from this animal entered the food chain and will have been eaten," the agency said. the second bull was slaughtered last month and action was taken before its meat entered the food chain. the u.s. food and drug administration (fda) in 2008 approved the sale of food from clones and their offspring, stating the products were indistinguishable from those of non-cloned animals. however, the european parliament voted recently to exclude food from cloned animals from a list of approved products. a novel food application must be made before it can be sold. milk probe the fsa said it was also continuing an investigation into reports milk from the offspring of cloned animals had entered the food chain in britain. it had found the offspring of a cloned cow which was believed to be part of a dairy herd, but had no evidence its milk had entered the food chain. news of the probe has attracted widespread media coverage with food campaigners saying it raised a number of issues. "cloning involves applying invasive and cruel techniques on the surrogate mothers that are used for producing the clones," said emma hockridge, head of policy at the soil association. she said cloning also raised worries about the safety of meat and dairy products and the spread of diseases, "as well as concerns about the ethics of cloning." however, brendan curran, a geneticist from queen mary, university of london, said fda tests had found no evidence that meat and milk from cloned animals or their offspring was any different from traditionally reproduced livestock. "they have concluded therefore that it is safe for humans to consume produce from such animals," he said. "there is no reason why the situation should be any different in the uk." professor robin lovell-badge, head of stem cell biology and developmental genetics at the national institute for medical research, said he expected most consumed bananas were clones. "i am not going to say that this story is bananas, as there could be some other issues, such as whether or not fsa and eu regulations have been complied with, and about the welfare of the cows used to make the clones and the cloned cows themselves, he said. "i suspect the latter were very well looked after as they are valuable. as abbie hoffmann said: sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger."
Source :flex-news-food.com
Date :
4
August
2010
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the uk food standards agency last week traced animals born in the uk from eight embryos produced by a cloned cow in the us. four of these embryos were male calves and four were female. all were holstein animals, a breed mainly used for dairy production.since the previous update published on 4 august, the agency has received assurances from the local authorities that visited the farms, the dairy industry and the farmers involved that no milk from the remaining two dairy cows has entered the food chain.
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the uk food standards agency is reminding people of its advice not to eat a type of seaweed called hijiki because it contains high levels of inorganic arsenic. inorganic arsenic is known to increase people’s risk of getting cancer.this reminder follows a notification from the european commission to the agency about a brand of hijiki seaweed, clearspring, which was found to contain high levels of arsenic.
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meat from the offspring of a cloned cow, raised and slaughtered in the uk has been exported to belgium, the uk’s food standards agency has confirmed. but belgian authorities say there is no food safety issue, so no rapid alert was required. the uk’s fsa said yesterday that meat from one of three offspring of cloned cows (two 2nd generation and one 3rd generation) has been exported to belgium.
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the food standards agency is reminding people of its advice not to eat a type of seaweed called hijiki because it contains high levels of inorganic arsenic. inorganic arsenic is known to increase people’s risk of getting cancer. this reminder follows a notification from the european commission to the agency about a brand of hijiki seaweed, clearspring, which was found to contain high levels of arsenic.
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the uk’s food standards agency (fsa) has confirmed that meat from a cloned animal has entered the nation’s food chain and has been consumed. an agency investigation found that two cloned bulls born in the uk have been slaughtered and meat from one of them entered the food chain in july last year. meat from the second animal did not enter the food chain. the investigation came after reports that products from the offspring of cloned animals had hit the market in the uk, which would have been illegal as these products would be considered ‘novel foods’ and would therefore need authorization to be sold.
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the uk’s food standards agency said yesterday it would investigate reports that milk from the offspring of a cloned cow has gone on sale in the country. an anonymous uk farmer told the international herald tribune he was producing milk from a cow bred from a clone as part of his daily milk output. the farmer requested anonymity for fear of buyers no longer taking his milk, the newspaper said. the eu said two years ago that there was “no clear evidence” of any difference in safety between products from cloned or conventionally-bred animals.
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the uk’s food standards agency (fsa) has said it is investigating claims that milk from a cloned cow has entered the nation’s dairy supply. the announcement comes after an unnamed dairy farmer told the international herald tribune that he was using milk from a cow bred from a clone as part of his daily production. fsa said that this would need to be considered for ‘novel food’ approval before it can be sold in the market.
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the food standards agency has released the latest results of its quarterly tracker survey, which monitors public opinion and awareness of the food standards agency and key food issues. a representative sample of 2,111 adults in the uk was interviewed in the latest wave of the tracker (march 2010), by placing questions on the tns consumer omnibus survey.
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the uk advertising standards authority (asa) has ruled against press adverts promoting the bowel health potential of probiotic and fibre-containing food supplements due to a lack of scientific backing. the asa ruled that the claim that lepicol could, “make it easier to keep your bowels healthy\" was not backed by trials using the specific formulation of the product and therefore told the healthy bowels company the advert must not appear again.
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