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Dolly scientist rejects cloning for food, as EU talks break down

by Andrew Willis, Brussels,

Long-running EU negotiations on 'novel foods' have ended in acrimony, with MEPs and member states diverging over the issue of labeling food produced from the offspring of cloned animals.

At the same time, the scientist behind the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, Dolly the sheep, told EUobserver by telephone on Tuesday (29 March) that cloning for food is hard to justify.

"I really think the idea that eating cloned animals or their offspring would offer a risk to human...

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