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food-technology2 years ago•3 min saved

USDA approves lab-grown chicken for sale in the US, raising questions about food safety and climate impact.

The USDA has approved the sale of lab-grown chicken, allowing companies like UPSIDE Foods and Eat Just to begin producing and selling the product. While it may take years before lab-grown chicken is available in regional grocery chains due to price competition with conventionally raised livestock, the companies are working to increase production. The approval involves a rigorous process, including assessing a firm's food-safety system. Lab-grown meat is grown in steel tanks using cells from a living animal, making it real meat, not "fake meat." Advocates describe it as clean, safe, and humane compared to conventional ways of raising livestock.

via Food Safety News|

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food-technology2 years ago•1 min saved

USDA approves sale of first-ever lab-grown meat from cultivated cells.

UPSIDE Foods, a California-based manufacturer, has become the world's first U.S. Department of Agriculture-approved cell-cultivated chicken meat producer and has been fully approved by the U.S. government for commercial sales nationwide. The company, which has received investment from Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Whole Foods founder John Mackey, will begin cultivation and sales of real chicken meat grown from animal cells in bioreactors. The lab-cultivated meat is being hailed as a possible solution for global warming, inhumane treatment of animals, and growing global hunger. The first availability of the product has not been announced yet.

via GMA|

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