USDA Approves Sale of Cell-Cultured Meat in the US
TL;DR
The USDA has granted inspection approval to three California-based companies, Upside Foods, Good Meat, and Good Meat's manufacturing partner, Joinn Biologics, to produce and sell lab-grown chicken in the US. The companies harvest cells from viable animal tissue and grow edible flesh under controlled conditions in bioreactors, flesh they say will be identical to that raised conventionally. The move brings the no-slaughter protein a step closer to American dinner plates, and dozens of major food companies are eager to debut cultivated meat to the American public.
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- USDA gives final green light to cell-cultured meat The Washington Post
- USDA approves first 'lab-grown' meat to be sold to the public Fox Business
- US approves meat grown from animal cells Associated Press
- US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation's first 'lab-grown' meat The Associated Press
- U.S. regulators approve sale of 'lab-grown' meat FOX 32 Chicago
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