EU Parliament to Vote on Draft Law to Ban Cloned Animals in Food

The Environment and Agriculture committees of the European
Parliament have approved a draft bill that would ban the cloning of
all farm animals, their descendants and products derived from them.
The legislation would prohibit both the cloning within the EU and the
importation of cloned animals from other countries. “We are well aware
that cloning is allowed in certain third countries that EU trades with, but
we cannot allow these products to be placed on the EU market,” Giulia
Moi, an Italian Member of the European Parliament, said in a press
release. “We also want to ensure that cloning of animals would not
become a common practice within the EU.”

The proposed law would require the import certificates for animals,
animal germinal products, food and feed of animal origin to indicate
that the products are not derived from cloned animals. The European
Parliament will vote on the bill at a plenary session slated for September
7-9, 2015. See European Parliament Press Release, June 17, 2015.

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