UK: Cloned meat "hypothetically" safe - FSA
By: Petah Marian | 26 November 2010
The UK's Food Standards Agency has said that milk and meat from cloned cattle and their progeny is "hypothetically" safe.
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has said that milk and meat from cloned cattle and their progeny is "hypothetically" safe.
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