Canadians could soon be eating products derived from cloned animals without ever knowing it.

Health Canada has quietly moved to lift long-standing restrictions on foods derived from cloned cattle and swine, removing them from the country’s “novel foods” list — a category that requires pre-market safety reviews and public disclosure. Once implemented, the change means cloned-animal products could enter the food supply without labels, announcements, or public notification.

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The shift stems from a policy review launched in 2023. Health Canada, working with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, concluded that meat, milk, and other foods from cloned cattle and swine are compositionally indistinguishable from those of conventionally bred a

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