"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first time Wednesday indicated it viewed chicken grown from cells as safe to eat, bringing cultivated meat closer to U.S. grocery store shelves.
The FDA said Wednesday that it had completed a premarket review of a cultivated chicken product from Berkeley, Calif.-based Upside Foods, and had no unresolved questions about its safety for humans to eat. The lab-grown chicken from Upside Foods must still get approvals from the Agriculture Department, which oversees the meat industry, before it can be sold in the U.S.
The cultivated meat industry said Wednesday that while there are still some regulatory hurdles remaining with the USDA, the FDA's action Wednesday signaled a future path to market for an expanding group of foods.
The livestock industry has come under increased environmental scrutiny, since cattle are a big source of methane, an especially potent greenhouse gas.
Cultivated meat is often grown in a vat, copying stem cells extracted from a live animal or from the ovaries of a newly slaughtered animal. The vat is also filled with serum containing amino acids, sugars and other nutrients needed for cells to grow." [1]
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Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 17 Nov 2022: A.7.
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