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2007-01-12 |

EU to debate UK cloned cow case

EU food safety officials will hold urgent talks to thrash out a strategy on food from cloned animals, after it emerged the calf of a cloned cow was being raised on a UK farm. Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has asked the European Commission's Novel Foods Working Group to discuss the cow, named Dundee Paradise, at its meeting on Friday. FSA officials sought legal advice on Wednesday after details emerged of the calf, which is the daughter of a clone living in the US.

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2007-01-12 |

EU to debate UK cloned cow case

EU food safety officials will hold urgent talks to thrash out a strategy on food from cloned animals, after it emerged the calf of a cloned cow was being raised on a UK farm. Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has asked the European Commission's Novel Foods Working Group to discuss the cow, named Dundee Paradise, at its meeting on Friday. FSA officials sought legal advice on Wednesday after details emerged of the calf, which is the daughter of a clone living in the US.

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