Food from cloned animals faces long wait

Food produced from cloned animals will not be commercially available for a long time due to costs that are expected to remain sky-high, experts said.

“I don’t believe (there will be) cloned food (from animals) in a sense that is realistic here in America or in Europe in our lifetime, simply because the cost of producing a clone directly for the food chain is over 10,000 dollars,” said Patrick Cunningham, an animal genetics professor at the University of Dublin.

The US Food and Drug Administration and its European counterpart in January approved the sale of food from cloned animals and their offspring after years of research.

But “even with the normal improvement in emerging technologies, I can’t see that coming down to a point where it will be competitive with normal reproduction,” Cunningham told reporters.

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