Cloned Meat Closer to Being Sold in Canada Without Labels or Oversight

Cuts of beef on display at a supermarket in Montreal, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Ryan RemiorzCanadians could soon be eating products from cloned cattle and swine without knowing it, as Health Canada makes moves to eliminate mandatory labelling and notification.The agency last year proposed removing foods derived from somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloned cattle and swine and their offspring from its list of “novel foods,” saying that scientific opinion had concluded such foods were “as safe as foods from traditionally bred animals.”