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Cloned Livestock Poised
To Receive FDA Clearance
By JANE ZHANG in Washington, JOHN W. MILLER in Brussels and LAUREN ETTER in Chicago
January 4, 2008; Page B1

Get ready for a food fight over milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring.

After more than six years of wrestling with the question of whether meat and milk from them are safe to eat, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to declare as early as next week that they are.

The FDA had asked producers of cloned livestock not to sell food products from such animals pending its ruling on their safety. It isn't clear whether the FDA will lift this voluntary hold.