Technology for growing meat brings cultivated chicken one step closer to U.S. markets
The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition announced in mid-November that it has completed its first premarket consultation for a human food made from cultured animal cells. Upside Foods will take living cells from chickens and grow the cells in a controlled environment to make the cultured meat.
The FDA stated that “the voluntary pre-market consultation is not an approval process. Instead, it means that after our careful evaluation of the data and information shared by the firm, we have no further questions at this time about the firm’s safety conclusion.”
This voluntary premarket consultation process evaluates the safety of food made from cultured animal cells before it enters the market. The process allows developers to work with the FDA on a product-by-product basis and informs them of issues they must consider when producing safe food that does not violate the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Human food made with cultured animal cells must meet the same requirements as all other food for humans. There is currently no food made from cultured animal cells available for sale in the U.S. market.
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