31.12.06

No 'cloned' food in Canada

As the U.S. FDA is looking into approving meat and milk from cloned animals, that food won't travel to Canada. Under current regulations, selling food from cloned animals is forbidden in Canada.

William Yan of Health Canada's health products and food branch told the press that the agency will examine the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's risk assessment draft. But exhaustive research would have to be done before potentially allowing the food from cloned animals.

I would imagine that you could not bring across meat and milk from cloned animals into Canada. One issue in the U.S. is that the proposed no-labeling policy doesn't give U.S. consumers the opportunity to steer away from cloned products if they choose to do so. The lack of labels would be a problem entering a country that doesn't allow the products, such as Canada. So the food would get labeled for the government's sake, but not the consumers.

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