Concern over 'cloned cow milk' claim

CAMPAIGNERS have expressed "extreme concern" over claims milk from the offspring of a cloned cow has been on sale in Britain.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is investigating reports a dairy farmer admitted using the milk, without labelling it as from a cloned cow, in his daily production. Under European law, foodstuffs produced from cloned animals must get approval before they are marketed. But the FSA, which is responsible for the assessment of so-called novel foods produced by cloned animals and their offspring, said it has not made any authorisations nor been asked to do so.

Campaign group Compassion in World Farming urged the FSA to trace the milk and have it withdrawn from sale.