European panel fails to endorse milk and meat from clones
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/24/business/cl [2008-7-25]
Tag : Animal Health
But in its statement Thursday, the authority said that"uncertainties in the risk assessment arise due to the limitednumber of studies available, the small sample sizes investigatedand, in general, the absence of a uniform approach that would allowall the issues relevant to this opinion to be more satisfactorilyaddressed."
Some of those same points were mentioned in the draft report, butthey were given much less weight.
Karen Talbot, a spokeswoman for the authority, acknowledged thatthere was a change of emphasis in the new findings, which followedmonths of consultations with industry bodies, trade and farmingassociations, consumer groups and nongovernmental organizations."The conclusions are not fundamentally different," she said, "but,after the consultation, they have acknowledged more clearly whatthey do know and what they don't know."
Vittorio Silano, chairman of the authority's scientific committee,said that for cattle and pigs, food safety concerns are "unlikely."But, he added, "the evidence base, while growing and showingconsistent findings, is still small."
The opinion Thursday is one of three pieces of advice that will beconsidered by the commission, which would have to giveauthorization for food from cloned animals to be marketed withinthe 27-nation European Union.
But in its statement Thursday, the authority said that"uncertainties in the risk assessment arise due to the limitednumber of studies available, the small sample sizes investigatedand, in general, the absence of a uniform approach that would allowall the issues relevant to this opinion to be more satisfactorilyaddressed."
Some of those same points were mentioned in the draft report, butthey were given much less weight.
Karen Talbot, a spokeswoman for the authority, acknowledged thatthere was a change of emphasis in the new findings, which followedmonths of consultations with industry bodies, trade and farmingassociations, consumer groups and nongovernmental organizations."The conclusions are not fundamentally different," she said, "but,after the consultation, they have acknowledged more clearly whatthey do know and what they don't know."
Vittorio Silano, chairman of the authority's scientific committee,said that for cattle and pigs, food safety concerns are "unlikely."But, he added, "the evidence base, while growing and showingconsistent findings, is still small."
The opinion Thursday is one of three pieces of advice that will beconsidered by the commission, which would have to giveauthorization for food from cloned animals to be marketed withinthe 27-nation European Union.
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