(MENAFN) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared a lab-grown beef product safe for human eating, making it the first to obtain the regulator's preliminary approval.
The FDA clarified in a statement issued on Wednesday that it had discovered no safety problems with maker Upside Foods' production method, but that this did not imply the "cultivated chicken" product could be marketed on the general market just yet.
The FDA reported that the unidentified product, made by Upside Foods, utilizes "animal cell culture technology to extract living cells from chickens and cultivate the cells in a controlled setting to generate the cultured animal cell food." According to another document, the end product is "a coherent tissue of chicken (Gallus gallus) cells, identical in content and nutritional properties to traditional poultry products."
According to FDA paperwork, the finished product is intended to resemble chicken, although its origin materials may include "materials of bovine or porcine origin... in addition to cell culture medium, media components, and antibiotics and antimycotics." Upside Foods states that its cow ingredients come from disease-free or risk-free herds, and its pig ingredients are checked for "porcine viruses that might survive in human cells."
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