Letters, Testimony & Comments

Presentation at International Science Attachés Briefing

Cloning is the most recent evolution of selective assisted breeding in animal husbandry. Cloning animals is a reliable way of reproducing superior livestock genetics and ensuring herds are maintained at the highest quality possible.

Implications of animal cloning on food safety, animal health and welfare and the environment.

Cloning is an assisted reproductive technique that produces an animal that is an identical twin of an existing animal.

Letter to the dairy industry urging support for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's release of the final risk assessment on animal cloning.

Livestock clones and their progeny can be raised in accordance with the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA), specifically 7 USC §6502 Definitions, §6504 National standards for organic production, and §6509 Animal production practices and materials.

Comments concerning China's compliance with WTO commitments.

NIST includes biomanufacturing as an area of "critical national need" for 2010 TIP competition.

NIST clarifies that device development is not a focus of 2010 TIP competition.

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