Stalemate as Europe fails to agree cloning controls

MEAT and milk from cloned animals can continue to be sold and does not need to be labelled after member states and the European Parliament failed to agree new controls.

Over the past three years legislation on novel foods, which includes cloned animals, has been slowly making its way through EU institutions.

For fear of rows with the World Trade Organisation and under pressure from the US, member states including Ireland argued against controls over the produce from the offspring of cloned animals.