Key Takeways:
- The FDA’s Response and Memo indicate that food safety, especially compared to that in traditional animal meat products, was key to the FDA’s greenlighting for Upside’s proposed cultivated chicken product.
- It is crucial for other cultivated meat companies seeking FDA approval to indicate specific steps and precautionary measures at each stage of the production process and preemptively identify areas of potential food contamination or other safety issues. These should be included and elaborated in depth in FDA submissions.
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