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The European Commission has today announced that it will propose a temporary suspension of animal cloning for food production in the EU. The Commission also plans to suspend temporarily the use of cloned farm animals and the marketing of food from clones. All temporary measures will be reviewed after five years. The establishment of a traceability system for imports of reproductive materials for clones, such as semen and embryos of clones is also envisaged. The system will allow farmers and industry to set up database with the animals that would emerge from these reproductive materials.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing this letter to clarify to animal food ingredient suppliers, animal food manufacturers, and the public that when a food substance is marketed as Generally Recognized As Safe, or GRAS, it does not necessarily mean that FDA has reviewed or concurred with the regulatory status of the substance.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved higher blending rates for ethanol in gasoline for 2007 and newer vehicles, allowing mixtures with up to 15% of the corn-based fuel at the pump. The current maximum ethanol blend rate is 10%; a mid-level blend rate increase of 12% had been discussed in recent months.

A new set of implementing rules on animal by-products, endorsed today by the Member States in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH), is expected to simplify controls and reduce administrative burden, while maintaining the existing high levels of human and animal health protection.

U.S. feed grain production for 2010/11 is projected lower this month based on reduced forecasts for corn and sorghum.

Statistics on GB Animal Feed include data for the period June 2010, July 2010 and August 2010.

Grain and oilseed production in the Prairie provinces was expected to decline for total wheat and for canola in 2010 compared with 2009. In contrast, farmers in Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario reported they expected to harvest a record soybean crop

The latest estimates of cereal production in the European Union, carried out by Copa-Cogeca show a 5% decrease for the 2010/2011 season.