Initially there was the legend, on Monday, that the almost immediately to be dissect Food Standards Agency had guarantee to immediately inspect proposition that a British dairy farmer was selling milk from cloned animals.

Then yesterday, along with asserts that up to 100 cattle had been reproducing from clones on British farms, the identical group exposed that the law leading the sale of clone- resultant meat had been busted previous year.

Decisions regarding whether or not foods are in shape for sale in the EU are prepared by the European Food Safety Authority, and to perplex issue further the FSA was then inform it had misapprehend the recent rules.

Officials in Brussels affirmed that whilst the products resultant from cloned animals is off the record as novel foods which need exceptional consent to be obtainable for sale, this does not fix to products resulting from the progeny of cloned animals.

So whilst in the US products resultant from cloned animals and their progeny are officially measured entirely secure to eat, in the EU member states can't even agree on what their own rules are. Small surprise, possibly, that so numerous people this side of the Atlantic appear to rely more on their intuition than any official advice.