EU Commission Renews Bid to Ban Food from Cloned Animals

The European Commission on Wednesday again proposed a ban on food and products from cloned animals, two years after failing to block their use. EU governments and lawmakers rejected the first move in 2011 because of a dispute over labeling. If approved, the latest draft rules would ban the use of cloning in commercial farming within the 28-nation bloc for five years, and prohibit the sale and import of food such as meat or milk from cloned animals. While it would be illegal to import...

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