EU probes food safety of animal clones

CONSUMERS are moving closer to eating meat, milk and cheese from cloned animals, with EU proposals on how they could be approved and authorised for sale.

Up to now, cloned animals,, such as Dolly the sheep, have been off the menu partly because they are so expensive to produce and partly because there has been no legislation on the issue.

A preliminary report from the European Food Safety Agency said the meat and milk from cloned animals appeared to be as safe as that from ordinary animals.