Meat and milk compositions of bovine clones.
The technology is now available for commercial cloning of farm animals for food production, but is the food safe for consumers? Here, we provide data on >100 parameters that compare the composition of meat and milk from beef and dairy cattle derived from cloning to those of genetic- and breed-matched control animals from conventional reproduction. The cloned animals and the comparators were managed under the same conditions and received the same diet. The composition of the meat and milk from the clones were largely not statistically different from those of matched comparators, and all parameters examined were within the normal industry standards or previously reported values. The data generated from our match-controlled experiments provide science-based information desired by regulatory agencies to address public concerns about the safety of meat and milk from somatic animal clones.
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Center for Regenerative Biology/Department of Animal Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
Kubota
Chikara
C
Sakashita
Kunihito
K
Izaike
Yoshiaki
Y
Okano
Ryoichi
R
Tabara
Norio
N
Curchoe
Carol
C
Jacob
Lavina
L
Zhang
Yuqin
Y
Smith
Sadie
S
Bormann
Charles
C
Xu
Jie
J
Sato
Masumi
M
Andrew
Sheila
S
Yang
Xiangzhong
X
D000818:Animals; D001823:Body Composition; D002417:Cattle; D019976:Cloning, Organism; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D005513:Food Inspection / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D016014:Linear Models; D008460:Meat / Q000032:analysis* / Q000592:standards; D008892:Milk / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000592:standards; D014781:Viscera / Q000473:pathology