FDA bans human cloning [CNN]

[Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>]

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>                  FDA: NO HUMAN CLONING WITHOUT AGENCY APPROVAL
>                                        
>      Cloning graphic January 19, 1998
>      Web posted at: 9:18 p.m. EST (0218 GMT)
>      
>      WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has a warning
>      for the Chicago physicist who wants to clone a human: The agency
>      will shut down anyone who tries without its permission.
>      
>      Richard Seed's cloning plans have sparked a public outcry and a race
>      by Congress and more than a dozen states to ban cloning. With the
>      FDA filling what critics had called a regulatory vacuum, scientists
>      say lawmakers should take more time to ensure vaguely worded
>      anti-cloning bills don't also ban lifesaving medical research.
>      
>      "It's been a public and media assumption that there is nothing on
>      the books that would even slow or stop Dr. Seed," said Carl Feldbaum
>      of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, which represents
>      biotechnologists involved in cloning research. FDA intervention
>      "creates at least some breathing space."
>      
>      FDA investigators plan to make clear to Seed that federal
>      regulations require that he file for FDA approval to attempt cloning
>      -- permission highly unlikely.
>      
>      "We're not only able to move, we're prepared to move," said Dr.
>      Michael Friedman, FDA's acting commissioner, noting the agency can
>      go to court to stop unauthorized cloning attempts.
>      

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