Move over, plant-based meat. The FDA on Wednesday paved the way for the first lab-grown meat product to get closer to grocery store shelves.
“This is a watershed moment in the history of food," Uma Valeti, MD, founder of UPSIDE Foods, said in a."This milestone marks a major step towards a new era in meat production, and I'm thrilled that U.S. consumers will soon have the chance to eat delicious meat that's grown directly from animal cells."
Some cells are then put in sterile containers with controlled environments so they can multiply into billions and trillions of cells. Finally, the resulting cellular material is “harvested” and “prepared using conventional food processing and packaging methods.”
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