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Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow entered the UK food chain a year ago according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) yesterday.
This is the first official confirmation of a breach of food laws.
A second bull born from an embryo taken from a cloned cow was slaughtered last week, but the meat was intercepted before it could be sold. The agency has found another cloned offspring in a dairy herd.
It said there was no evidence that consuming food from healthy clones or their offspring posed a risk, but its sale had not been authorised under legislation on 'novel foods'.
However, there has been further confusion as officials from the European commission said the FSA was wrong in its interpretation of the EU regulations, and that offspring of cloned animals were not covered.