ABSTRACT
The European Union currently faces a public debate on whether food produced from cloned animals and their offspring (‘cloned food’) might be allowed to circulate within the Internal Market and, if so, under what conditions. As with genetically modified food and feed, or nanotechnology, the EU regulators are confronted with a controversial technology that raises food safety concerns as well as ethical and socio-economic implications. There is no specific legal framework that regulates such products in the EU at a time when food products derived from cloned animals are beginning to be commercialised in countries outside the EU, and might also reach the European market. 1
