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Chapter VI: Food Consumption Risks 187
A. Potential Hazards and Food Consumption Risks Associated with Food Products from Animal Clones and their Progeny 187
1. Assumptions 187
2. Critical Biological Systems Approach to Clones of Cattle, Swine, Sheep, and Goats 188
a. Bovine Clones 188
b. Swine Clones 243
c. Sheep Clones 260
d. Goat Clones 264
3. Compositional Analysis Method 268
a. Overview 268
b. Nutritional Risk 269
c. Characterization of Milk from Cow Clones 278
d. Characterization of Meat from Clones and Their Progeny 288
B. Drawing Conclusions Regarding Risks Associated with Consumption of Food Products from Animal Clones 309
1. Approaches for Decreasing Uncertainties 309
2. Bounding the Risk Space 310
3. Developing Conclusions Regarding Food Consumption Risks 310
4. Weight of Evidence Conclusions Regarding Food Consumption Risks for Clones and their Progeny 312
a. Cattle Clones 312
b. Swine Clones 316
c. Sheep Clones 317
d. Goat Clones 318
e. Clone Progeny 319
5. Summary of Risk Hypotheses 319
a. Additional Issues 320
6. How Much (Information) Is Enough? 323
Chapter VII Summary and Conclusions 327
A. Methodology 327
B. Conclusions Regarding Risks to Animal Health 328
C. Conclusions Regarding Food Consumption Risks 329
D. Conclusions Regarding Food Consumption Risks from Clone Progeny 330
E. Weight of Evidence Evaluations 330