A claim that embryos from a cow bred from a British clone were sold to breeders in Canada has no evidence to back it up, according to the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) investigation of the anonymous claim in a U.S. newspaper has found “no evidence to support the allegation,” the CCA said in a newsletter last month.
U.K. government officials have confirmed that, according to their records, no embryos from the cow had been certified for export to Canada, contrary to a claim made in a July article on cloned livestock in theInternational Herald Tribune.
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Writer James Kanter on July 29 quoted an unnamed British dairy farmer as saying he not only sold milk from a cow bred from a clone, but sold the cow’s embryos to unnamed “breeders in Canada.”
U.K. animal health officials contacted by the CFIA were able to confirm the identity of the herd and cow anonymously cited in the news story, the CCA said.
The cow’s herd of origin has been dispersed and no evidence was found of any embryos from the cow being exported to Canada, CFIA was quoted as saying.
