A state-run Japanese agricultural organization has concluded that
there is no biological difference in the quality of meat and in the
constituents of milk between products from next-generation cloned cows and
those from conventionally bred ones, government sources said Tuesday.
The conclusion could lead to a lifting of a de facto ban on meat and
milk from cloned cows on the Japanese domestic market. The findings are
contained in a report compiled by the National Institute of Livestock and
Grassland Science, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries. The institute, based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture,
conducted the research on the safety of next-generation cloned cows born
through artificial insemination using sperm from cloned cows.


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