The Issues

¹Center for Food Safety “Not Ready for Prime Time: FDA’s Flawed Approach to Assessing the Safety of Food from Animal Clones,” March 2007.

² Food and Drug Administration (2006), “Animal Cloning: A Draft Risk Assessment.” December 28, 2006. http://www.fda.gov/cvm/Cloneriskassessment.htm

³ European Food Safety Authority "DRAFT Scientific Opinion on Food Safety, Animal Health and Welfare and Environmental Impact of Animals Derived from Cloning by Somatic Cell Nucleus Transfer (SCNT) and Their Offspring and Products Obtained from those Animals" December 19, 2007 http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/DocumentSet/sc_opinion_clon_public_consultation.pdf

⁴ Betts, et.al., “Telomere Length Analysis in Goat Clones and Their Offspring” Molecular Reproduction and Development, Volume 72, Issue 4: pages 461-470, September 2, 2005. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/111089273/abstract

⁵ National Academy of Sciences, “Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods: Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects (2004)” p. 222. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10977&page=217

⁶ Alex Roslin, “Clone, clone on the range” Straight.com, February 21, 2008. http://www.straight.com/article-132924/clone-clone-on-the-range

⁷ the Mellman Group, Inc. for The Pew Initiative On Food And Biotechnology  “Public Sentiment about Genetically Modified Food (2006)” December 1, 2006. http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=32802

⁸ The Center for Food Safety “Compilation and analysis of Public Opinion Polls on Animal Cloning” February 2008. 

⁹ The Shelby Report of the Southwest, “Several Denounce FDA Approval of Food from Cloned Animals,” Feb. 1, 2008.

¹⁰ PCC Natural Markets, Cloning Statement, February 11, 2008. (Saved in Farm Sanctuary Campaigns file).

¹¹United Methodists General Conference 2008 policy resolution on Genetic Science, April 2008. Petition #80566 can be viewed at http://calms.umc.org/2008/Menu.aspx?type=Petition&mode=Single&number=566. (accessed 7-8-08)

¹² “European Parliament resolution of 22 May 2008 on a new animal health strategy for the European Union 2007-2013” http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P6-TA-2008-0235+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN  (accessed 6-27-08)

¹³Meatinfo.co.uk “MEPsvote to ban cloned animal meat” March 6, 2008

http://www.meatinfo.co.uk/articles/62426/MEPs-vote-to-ban-cloned-animal-meat.aspx?categoryid=9045 (accessed 3-6-08)

¹⁴Jeremy Smith, “EU agency may tone down stance on cloned food” Reuters, June 5, 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7564980