Lab-grown chicken breast at UPSIDE Foods in Emeryville, Calif. Source: ABC News<\/p>\n
In the last five months, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved two American producers of lab-grown meat, a product grown from animal cells for human consumption for the first time.<\/p>\n
In 2022, the FDA announced<\/a>\u00a0that laboratory-grown chicken developed by Upside Food, is \u201csafe to eat,\u201d clearing the way for the California-based company that creates cell-cultured chickens to begin selling its products.<\/p>\n To manufacture its meat, Upside Foods harvests cells from live animals, chicken tissue, and uses the cells to grow meat in stainless-steel tanks known as bioreactors.<\/p>\n The agency\u00a0issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0announcing it evaluated Upside Food\u2019s production and cultured cell material and has \u201cno further questions\u201d about the safety of its cultivated chicken filet.<\/p>\n \u201cThe world is experiencing a food revolution,\u201d stated FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf. \u201cAdvancements in cell culture technology are enabling food developers to use animal cells obtained from livestock poultry, and seafood in the production of food with these products expected to be ready for the US market in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe FDA\u2019s goal is to support innovation in food technologies while always maintaining as our first priority the safety of the foods available to US consumers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Upside Foods founder and CEO Uma Valeti heralded the FDA\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, the second lab-grown chicken product was approved by FDA.<\/p>\n \u201cGOOD Meat\u2019s chicken is the second cultivated meat product to receive a \u201cno-questions\u201d letter from the FDA after California-brd UPSIDE Foods got the regulator\u2019s green light for its cultivated chicken breast last November. The letter means the FDA accepts the company\u2019s conclusion that its product is safe for humans to eat,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have no questions at this time regarding GOOD Meat\u2019s conclusion that foods comprised of or containing cultured chicken cell material [are] as safe as comparable foods produced by other methods,\u201d FDA said in a March 20 letter to the company.<\/p>\n Now, lab-grown chicken meat is getting closer to restaurant menus and store shelves.<\/p>\n ABC reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n Regulators from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are now deciding\u00a0how to label<\/a>\u00a0cultivated meat for public sale and inspect facilities that produce it. The guidelines are expected sometime this year \u2014 a final hurdle before the products can hit store shelves.<\/p>\n Americans were estimated to consume roughly 75 billion pounds of red meat and chicken last year, according to USDA data. That\u2019s nearly 225 pounds per American.<\/p>\n \u201cI think of our cultivated meat as the one that can fill the delta between how much meat we eat now and how much we\u2019re going to have to produce for the next 30 years,\u201d Valeti said.<\/p>\n Cultivated, or cultured-cell, meat is grown in steel bioreactors from animal stem cells that are fed a mixture of vitamins, fats, sugars and oxygen. The process results in real meat tissue without having to raise or slaughter an animal.<\/p>\n ABC News was granted an inside look at the nation\u2019s first and largest cultivated chicken facility, run by UPSIDE Foods in an office park outside San Francisco.<\/p>\n \u201cIt takes two weeks to grow the equal to one chicken, a thousand chickens or 100,000 chickens,\u201d said Valeti, who is a cardiologist by training. What limits production is infrastructure.<\/p>\n Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Here We Go: Lab-Grown Chicken Meat Will Soon Hit Store Shelves and Restaurant Menus<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lab-grown chicken breast at UPSIDE Foods in Emeryville, Calif. Source: ABC News In the last five months, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n