FDA Finds Little Risk in Cloned Farm Animals

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 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.