Items Tagged with 'cell-cultured meat'

Recent milestones, many obstacles remain before cultivated meat and chicken can be served at scale and to the masses.

Can meat made with cultured animal cells be called a steak? The Food Safety and Inspection Service wants answers to that question and more than a dozen others as it tries to determine how to label cell-cultured meat and poultry products now being developed for commercialization in the U.S.

USDA and FDA have agreed they need better cohesion in their joint effort to regulate cell-cultured meat, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to become USDA’s top scientist assured senators he accepts the scientific consensus on climate change and said more research is needed to help U.S. agriculture adapt.

The Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration will share regulatory oversight of cell-cultured meat products, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue and FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said today.

Seven groups representing livestock producers and the meat industry have gone straight to President Donald Trump with their jurisdictional requests for cell-cultured protein products.

The Food and Drug Administration said at a public meeting today that it has the expertise to address the regulatory challenges posed by the young but fast-growing industry of cell-cultured animal products.