title: Cloning of farm animals: impact on animal health and welfare and implications in trade.
abstract: The commercial use of animal cloning for breeding food producing animals has been limited so far by biological and technical constraints such as adverse effects on the health and welfare of animals, especially high perinatal and postnatal disease and mortality of clones. However, the improvement of the technique may overcome those problems in future and contribute to the spread of cloning in agricultural production, which raises concern not only on health and welfare aspects but also on food safety and ethics. This may cause conflict in international trade. The present article reviews these topics on the basis of up-to-date scientific opinions.
authors.affiliation: Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Berne.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Menéndez González
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reist
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000827:Animal Welfare; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D003001:Cloning, Molecular