Regulatory Documents

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a final risk assessment on the safety of food from clones and their offspring on January 14, 2008.  The agency concluded that the meat and milk from cloned animals is no different from food derived from any other livestock.  The agency analysis was the most extensive food safety review in FDA’s history, and complements two earlier reports from the National Academy of Sciences that reached the same conclusion. See the National Academy of Sciences reviews in 2002 and 2004.

• FDA and Animal Cloning - January 2008

• FDA Final Risk Assessment on Animal  Cloning - January 2008

• FDA Risk Management Plan on Animal Cloning - January 2008

• FDA Guidance to Industry on Animal Cloning - January 2008

• ViaGen Comments on the FDA's Risk Assessment

• The US FDA and animal cloning: Risk and regulatory approach. October 2006

• A Risk-Based Approach to Evaluate Animal Clones and Their Progeny - DRAFT. 2006-2007.

• US Food and Drug Administration. 2003. Animal Cloning: A Risk Assessment.

• (EFSA) DRAFT Scientific Opinion on Food Safety, Animal Health and Welfare, and Environmental Impact of Animals Derived from Cloning Through Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer and their Offspring and Products Obtained from Those Animals, 2008.