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ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & Law

Dutch ban animal cloning

March 2, 1998 8:00 AM UTC

OXFORD - Pharming NV, the Netherlands' home grown transgenic specialist, is calling a new Dutch ban on animal cloning a "surprise but not a shock," and predicts it is unlikely to have any long term implications for the company.

Jozias van Aartsen, the Dutch agriculture minister, last week unveiled a ban on cloning experiments on the advice of the government's Ethical Committee, which wants to see evidence that such cloning will lead to therapeutic benefits to humans...