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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Despite a government endorsement, food from cloned animals could take years to reach supermarket shelves. But the backing does give hope to several struggling businesses that clone cows and pigs.
The biotechnology companies believe ranchers, dairy producers and others now will be more willing to pay upward of $16,000 per clone following last week's tentative approval by the Food and Drug Administration to use the technology to produce food.
Although no law bars cloned food, the companies and their customers have for the past three years voluntarily withheld sales of cloned-derived food pending the FDA review.
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