FDA Decision on Cloned Meat Looms The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is scheduled to make a final decision before the end of the year on whether meat and milk from cloned animals can enter the food supply. The FDA released a draft risk assessment late last year indicating that cloned products are as safe as other products on the market today, but it has not indicated the exact date of its final ruling on the matter. "I am expecting that we will essentially get the same ruling - the same findings -- that they had in the draft risk assessment," Mark Walton, president of the animal cloning firm ViaGen, told Cybercast News Service. "The draft risk assessment was so thorough, contained essentially all of the data that was available, and then there was new data added during the public comment period, but the new data supported the conclusions the FDA had already made," Walton added. "I would anticipate that cloned animals and the offspring of cloned animals and the products that come from those are as safe as conventionally produced products," he said....