BIO Urges FDA Release of Risk Assessment on Animal Cloning

**Biotechnology Industry Organization** (BIO) Executive Vice President for Food and Agriculture Sharon Bomer Lauritsen today issued the following statement on the newly launched tracking program for **animal clones**: “Today, the leading **animal cloning** companies introduced an animal clone registry program that will track livestock produced through cloning. With this new registry program in place, BIO encourages a timely release by the U. S. **Food and Drug Administration (FDA)** of the final risk assessment on the safety of foods from animal cloning. Our industry believes the tracking program will help to identify animal clones and address market concerns when the voluntary moratorium on the use of cloning for commercial food production is lifted.”

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