The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given a safety clearance to lab-grown meat for the first time.
Upside Foods, a California-based company that makes meat from cultured chicken cells, will be able to begin selling its products once its facilities have been inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
People are also reading… Upside Foods did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but company founder and CEO Uma Valeti said on Twitter that its cultivated chicken"was one step closer to being on tables everywhere." "These products are not vegan, vegetarian or plant-based — they are real meat, made without the animal."
Although not technically an approval, the FDA said that a thorough pre-market consultation process had been completed. The clearance only applies to food made from cultured chicken cells by Upside, but the statement said the FDA"is ready to work with additional firms developing cultured animal cell food."
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