Lab chicken approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for human consumption

Closer and closer to our plate is coming artificial meatas the second company to receive the safety-critical green light from Food and Drug Administration You can now proceed to the next steps for sale to chicken substitute which is produced in Lab for American consumers.

the good meatsister company Just an egg And Company company just eatIt completed pre-market testing by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this week. Agency inspectors “currently have no questions” regarding the safety of Good Meat’s “chicken cell culture material,” according to an official letter from the FDA sent to the company on Monday.. Or, in less bureaucratic terms: The Food and Drug Administration has deemed Good Meat’s lab-grown chicken good enough to eat.

positive without NotesEvaluation is only a second issued by US Food Safety Authority in Meat production company. In November 2022, the agency issued its first lab-grown meat seal in the United States Upside down food – Also for cultured chicken product.

Although technically it is notapproval processFood and Drug Administration evaluation of chicken prepared by Good Meat It is equivalent to the official green light for the company’s technology and production methods.

In 2020, Good Meat Agreeing to sell her chicken… without chicken in Singapore. And the company has been doing it there for the past two years, albeit on a small scale. However, it can now begin to enter the US market once it is overtaken separate hitch From the USDA, the company notes in a press release.

“since Singapore agreed to sell GOOD Meat, We knew this moment was next. I am very proud to bring this new way of preparing meat to my country,” CEO and co-founder Josh Tetrick said in the release.

Good Meat, like other meat companies that contain cell technologyuses a small amount of animal cells as a growth medium Produce more meatwith far less carnage, he airs it gizmodo.com.

this n As an alternative to standard industrial meat, it has been heralded for years as a potential solution to the many ethical, health and environmental deficiencies of our current system in which animals are raised and slaughtered en masse.. However, until recently, cultured meat remained mostly theoretical. This FDA seals Pushing the needle forward into a future where easily purchased cultured meat can become a reality.

However, while it seems likely that more artificial meat is on the horizon, the expected climate benefits of these products remain unclear. Some research has suggested that cultured meat can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from meat production by a huge amount – up to 96%. Other studies have questioned the environmental benefits of lab-grown drumsticks and chips.

Since no company actually Cultured meat is produced on a similar scale to the industrial meat industryIt is difficult to estimate the true environmental cost of cell culture for raising chickens and cattle. Both require energy and land to grow crops used as “growing medium” or food. At this point, life cycle analyzes can only guess and estimate the true burden of animal cell transplantation to meet the world’s hunger for meat..

Now, with the FDA hurdle recently cleared by good meatWe may finally have an industrial-sized test case soon. In May 2022, the company announced plans to build the world’s largest meat farming facility in the United States. It remains to be seen whether the proposed meat tanks 250,000 liters The proposed by the company is technically feasible. But if that’s the case, we might learn how giants can culture tanks They line up in practice with live and breathing cattle.

For now, at least, Good Meat Start with smaller sizes. After completing her “work with [USDA] To obtain the necessary approvals”, the company She plans to try her farm-raised chicken at one Washington restaurantowned by celebrity chef and non-profit founder, Jose Andres. It is one dinner spot, Good Meat’s farmed chicken can spread to either Over 30 other Chef Collection locations – or even on grocery store shelves.

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