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Most people do not want to eat meat from cloned animals, according to a European Commission survey. Just over 40% say that cloning should be allowed if it makes animals less susceptible to disease, but a majority of 58% disagree.

The data were published shortly after SP Euro-MP Kartika Liotard complained, at the beginning of September, that cloned meat for human consumption could be allowed on to the European market through the back door of a new regulation on 'novel foods'. At that time she received assurances from European Commissioner for Health Androulla Vassiliou that such meat would not be smuggled in via the Regulation on Novel Foodstuffs then under consideration. "The Commission must now come forward without delay with proposals to ban cloned meat for human consumption," Liotard says.