According to an usual report, milk from the offspring of a cloned cow is being sold in UK shops. The Food standards agency is investigating the claim made by an anonymous British dairy farmer. The FSA said it believed that the practice of selling milk from cloned cows and their offspring was not legal.

The farmer, on the other hand, claimed that he was using milk from a cow bred from a clone, as a part of his dairy production. The milk was not being identified as being different from produce derived from a naturally born cow.

The farmer made this claim to the international herald Tribune, on the condition of anonymity for fear that consumers would stop purchasing his milk.

He also said he was selling embryos from the same cow to Canadian breeders.

Earlier last month, the European parliament voted to prohibit the sale of dairy products and meat from clones and their offsprings. However, this has not yet passed into law. .

According to European Law, foodstuffs derived from cloned animals and their offsprings must pass a safety evaluation and get approval before being sold in market. The FSA, the authority responsible for assessing such food, said it has not made any authorisations, nor been instructed to do so.

The cows being used to produce the milk started life in the United States as embryos created from the eggs of cloned cows and the sperm of normal bulls. The embryos were frozen and flown to Britain where they were implanted into host cows. The offspring produce higher quantities of milk than normal cows.

In 2007 it was disclosed that eight cloned cows were born this way on British farms, including one in Shropshire.

Research has identified concerns for the health of animals produced as a result of cloning. There is some evidence of premature births and deformities. However, an FSA spokesman said: “Based on the best available evidence, there are no food safety concerns surrounding consumption of products from healthy clones or their offspring.”

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UK government will increase the pension age for men to 66 by 2016, and is also to consider rising it for both men and women to age 70 or beyond during the forthcoming decades with an intention to reinvigorate retirement.

Meanwhile the government is also planning to scrap the default retirement age of 65, under which the employers can force employees to take retirement.

Under Labor, the UK state pension age was to be raised to 66 by 2024, before being raised to 67 by 2036 and 68 by 2046. However, the new coalition government has felt the need to take more drastic actions and believes that people should be allowed to work for as long as they want.

‘People are living longer and healthier lives than ever, and the last thing we want is to lose their skills and experience from the workplace due to an arbitrary age limit,’ Duncan Smith told the Telegraph today.

“Now is absolutely the right time to live up to our responsibility to reform our outdated pension system and to take action where the previous government failed to do so. If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.” he concluded.

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