Cloned food

摘要

The European Union has been left with no legislation on sales of food and dairy products from cloned animals and their offspring, after last-minute talks in Brussels ended without agreement on 29 March. The European Parliament and the European Council of Ministers had been negotiating for three years on the 'novel foods' legislation, which also includes the use of nanomaterials in foods. Talks broke down on the feasibility of labelling all food derived from clones' offspring. As a result, 1997 regulations remain in force, and any new proposal for legislating cloned animal products must start from scratch. See go.nature. com/3izkke for more.