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Cloned meat is safe for consumers, say US officials in 968-page report

US farmers have been given the green light to produce cloned meat for the human food chain. In a 968-page report billed as a "final risk assessment" of the technology, the US Food and Drug Administration has concluded that healthy cloned animals and products from them such as milk are safe for consumers.

cloning expert Professor Keith Campbell, of Nottingham University, who was part of the Dolly team, said: "With cloning we can actually collect cells from these animals, store them and bring them back from the dead, so to speak. We can then use them in breeding programmes ... It's a way of maintaining rare breeds without having to maintain the animals."