1 Amendments of Valentinas MAZURONIS related to 2013/0433(COD)
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has confirmed that surrogate dams used in cloning suffer in particular from placenta dysfunctions contributing to increased levels of miscarriages21. This contributes, amongst other things, to the low efficiency of the technique, 6 to 15 % for bovine and 6 % for porcine species, and the need to implant embryo clones into several dams to obtain one clone. In addition, cClone abnormalities and unusually large offspring result in difficult births and neonatal deaths. That is why the cloning technique is associated with a high mortality rate. In addition, cloning adversely affects biodiversity and genetic inheritance and creates problems related to resistance to emerging risk factors and new zoonotic agents entering Europe. __________________ 21 Scientific Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Food Safety, Animal Health and Welfare and Environmental Impact of Animals derived from Cloning by Somatic Cell Nucleus Transfer (SCNT) and their Offspring and Products Obtained from those Animals http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/c loning.htm?wtrl=01.