Meat and Milk from Cloned Animals to Be Tracked

Just days after Congress agreed to new rules requiring additional study before milk and meat from cloned animals could be sold, the two largest U.S. cloning companies pledged to set up a registry to keep tabs on all cloned animals, according to Bloomberg.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the sale of meat and milk from cloned animals, but Congress could require additional study that would delay any possibility of cloned animal products appearing on grocery store shelves.

Whenever that does happen, private industry has pledged to keep careful tabs on the animals. Via-Gen Inc. of Austin, Texas, and Trans Ova Genetics of Sioux Center, Iowa, which account for three quarters of the cloned animals in the U.S., would keep track of the whereabouts of cloned animals. But it's more likely that the offspring of cloned animals would show up in supermarkets, since the expense of cloning would be spent on creating breeding stock.

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