The system was launched Wednesday a year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a draft risk assessment that meat and milk from cloned animals were safe for human consumption.
BIO, which represents 1,100 companies and cloning organizations in 32 countries, urged the FDA to release a final risk assessment on the safety of food products from cloned animals, Agence France-Presse reported.
Each cloned animal will get a unique identification in a registry that can be checked by the livestock auction market or packers and processors.
Once a cloned animal is delivered, the owner must commit to properly market the meat or milk produced from it.
"Our industry believes the tracking program will help to identify animal clones and address market concerns when the voluntary moratorium on the use of cloning for commercial food production is lifted," said Sharon Bomer Lauritsen, BIO's executive vice president for food and agriculture, said in a statement.
