Franken - Food

Fast-growing salmon. Pork containing heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids.Are just two examples of products you might see in your local supermarket soon -- animals developed not through conventional breeding but through genetic engineering.

On January 15, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided how it will regulate genetically engineered animals, for the first time paving the way for such animals or their products to be sold as food and medicine.

The agency has decided to categorize genetically engineered farm animals, also called transgenic animals, as an "animal drug."

They will be held to the same requirements already existing for conventionally bred animals treated with hormones or antibiotics.

In the case of transgenic animals, the "drug" is a snippet of DNA.

Now for the good part ...

Products derived from them or containing them as an ingredient will not necessarily require labeling.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times