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Speakers:
Prof Keith Campbell, Director of Biosciences Division Of Animal Physiology, University of Nottingham
Dr Simon Best, Chairman, BioIndustry Association
Chris Warkup, Chief Executive of the Genesis Faraday Partnership based at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
It is over 10 years since the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep was announced. Since then, research in the field has advanced quickly and it is predicted that cloned meat will enter the foodchain, somewhere in the world, in the next 5 years. Before then it is likely that the offspring of cloned animals will be introduced. The Science Media Centre invited experts on animal cloning and biotechnology to brief the media on issues including how soon cloned meat could enter the food chain and what the potential benefits of this could be in terms of the cost and environmental impact of food.