Jennifer Butler, “Cloned Animal Products in the Human Food Chain: FDA Should Protect American Consumers,” Food & Drug Law Journal, September 2009

Authored by a recent law school graduate, this article explores the science of animal cloning and the purported shortcomings in existing regulatory authorities to adequately protect the consuming public from potential cloned animal product risks. Noting that animal cloning technology relies, for the most part, on a process that does not create a “pure, one hundred percent genetic clone,” the author recommends the creation of a Food and Drug Administration “Office of Transgenic and Cloned Products” to regulate cloning processes and “take a holistic approach to risk assessment.” She also calls for cloned animal product labeling to “ensure human food consumption safety” and “allow American consumers to choose not to eat cloned animal products, thereby respecting their moral, religious and ethical values.”