"Given the paucity of data that directly address the safety of meat and milk from cloned animals, the FDA used indirect measures of food safety, primarily data on the health of the clones at different life stages. The operating hypothesis is the notion that an animal that appears healthy must be safe to eat (e.g. the Critical Biological Systems Approach). This approach is not scientific—this is reasoning by inference, not from data. Furthermore, FDA has bent over backward to interpret data from cloning companies in a way that minimizes the potential problems raised by SCNTs. Both of these problems need to be remedied in the final Risk Assessment."