The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced [recently] that it has completed its second pre-market consultation with a lab-grown meat company. GOOD Meat will use animal cell culture technology to take living cells from chickens and grow the cells in a lab to make cultured animal cell food.

FDA explained that human food produced by GOOD Meat from cultured animal cells must meet the same stringent FDA requirements, including facility registration and applicable safety requirements, as other food. In addition, the firm will need a grant of inspection from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) manufacturing establishment. The food itself also requires a mark of inspection from FSIS before it can enter the U.S. market.

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GOOD Meat said the agency’s decisions clears “a crucial step” in bringing product to the U.S., more than two years after its historic approval and launch in Singapore. The company is now working with the USDA on necessary approvals before world-renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés becomes the first in the country to offer GOOD Meat’s chicken to customers at a restaurant in Washington, D.C.

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