No Quick End for Cloning Product Moratorium: USDA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday it will not lift a voluntary moratorium on selling meat and milk from cloned animals to consumers any time soon.

In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled that products from cloned cattle, swine and goats and their offspring were as safe as milk and meat from traditional animals.

Before then, farmers and ranchers had followed a voluntary ban on the sale of cloned products.

After the FDA's ruling, USDA asked the cloning industry to prolong the ban for a transitional period expected to last several months.

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