The startling thing is that a lot of us are probably already eating the offspring of clones or clones themselves without realising. Why? Because despite it being illegal, its not actually regulated. The Food Standards Agency has admitted it has no idea how many cloned embryos areExperts are quick to claim how safe it all is, but the fact remains, they dont actually know, because there have been no detailed studies in the UK or the US, where citizens are happily tucking in to cloned food on a daily basis. coming into the country as it relies on farmers and breeders to self-regulate. A 2004 study from the US National Academies published a report concluding that the FDAs (Americas FSA) and other regulators decision-making processes for assessing food safety were flawed and outdated. The report said the methods and techniques used to make their assessments were not sophisticated enough to predict and identify unintended effects from genetically engineered and cloned food. In other words there have been no studies that follow the cloned meat from production to the plate to see if it actually is causing any problems. And the longterm effects are obviously completely unknown.