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...FDA approved the first diet drug for the more than 3 million obese dogs in the U.S. Available this spring, Slentrol reduces the amount of fat Fido can absorb and makes him feel full...
...potentially commercial use, breeders are currently cloning cattle, pigs, goat and sheep. The FDA's report, however, addresses only the safety of food from cattle, pigs and goats, since there isn't enough information yet on products from cloned sheep...
...Until April 2, the FDA welcomes public comment at http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/commentdocket.cfm?AGENCY=FDA
...Probably not, according to the data the FDA analyzed. That's because even if the FDA eventually gives the go-ahead, meat or milk from the cloned animals themselves will likely not be what is for sale. Instead, breeders will almost certainly use cloned animals as they use prize bulls - they will mate them in the natural way, and it will be the offspring whose food products will end up on supermarket shelves. Based on studies of cloned cattle, pigs and goats born so far, any genetic defects generated by cloning seem to be limited to the clones themselves...
...FDA is waiting until the comment period is over before making this decision. But Stephen Sundlof, director of the agency's Center for Veterinary Medicine, says: "If we felt that the food introduced substances that were harmful to people, labeling would be in order. But assuming that the draft risk assessment is not altered in content, which notes that the science shows that the food from these animals is not different materially from the food from other animals, we would not require labeling...