FDA clears lab-grown meat [Upside Foods] for human consumption

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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3740038-fda-clears-lab-grown-meat-for-human-consumption/

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday announced it has cleared a lab-grown meat product as safe for human consumption for the first time.

In a news release, the agency said that after reviewing information from UPSIDE Foods about food the company is making from cultured chicken cells, it has “no further questions at this time about the firm’s safety conclusion.”

The agency noted that before UPSIDE Foods, based in Berkeley, Calif., can bring its products to the market, the facility in which the food is made will have to meet inspection standards from the FDA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the USDA-Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

“The world is experiencing a food revolution and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is committed to supporting innovation in the food supply,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and Director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) Susan Mayne said in a joint statement. “As an example of that commitment, today we are announcing that we have completed our first pre-market consultation of a human food made from cultured animal cells.”

In a separate statement, UPSIDE Foods CEO and Founder Uma Valeti expressed his excitement over the FDA’s safety clearance of his company’s product, referring to it as a “watershed moment.”

“This is a watershed moment in the history of food,” Valeti said. “We started UPSIDE amid a world full of skeptics, and today, we’ve made history again as the first company to receive a ‘No Questions’ letter from the FDA for cultivated meat. This milestone marks a major step towards a new era in meat production, and I’m thrilled that U.S. consumers will soon have the chance to eat delicious meat that’s grown directly from animal cells.”

The FDA also said in its news release that it is “ready to work with additional firms developing cultured animal cell food and production processes to ensure their products are safe and lawful under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.”

According to a CNBC report, the global cultivated meat industry aims to cut down on the greenhouse gas emitted in the production of animal-based food products and, in doing so, to help increase the sustainability of the food system and reduce the impacts of climate change.

“We are already engaged in discussion with multiple firms about various types of products made from cultured animal cells, including those made from seafood cells, which will be overseen solely by the FDA,” the agency concluded its news release. “We continue to encourage firms to enter into dialogue with us often and early in their product development phase, well ahead of making any submission to us.”

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[VCheng]

The agency noted that before UPSIDE Foods, based in Berkeley, Calif., can bring its products to the market, the facility in which the food is made will have to meet inspection standards from the FDA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the USDA-Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

As long as any foods having such lab grown products are clearly labeled as such for consumers to see and decide, it is okay.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

As long as any foods having such lab grown products are clearly labeled as such for consumers to see and decide, it is okay.

so how about haram meats...

 

[VCheng]

so how about haram meats...

I am not going there, boss.

 

[SQ8]

so how about haram meats...

They will still use swine cells to cultivate it so nothing changes. This isn’t a case of non alcoholic vodka where you can remove the offending element of intoxication is removed.

Because the base cells from which this culture will be grown still will come from live animals - the characteristic of the animal which define it as haram also follow suit.

 

[VCheng]

They will still use swine cells to cultivate it so nothing changes. This isn’t a case of non alcoholic vodka where you can remove the offending element of intoxication is removed.

Because the base cells from which this culture will be grown still will come from live animals - the characteristic of the animal which define it as haram also follow suit.

As I said, as long as the origins are clearly labeled for the consumers.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[BHAN85]

When you eat protein, it's splited in aminoacids.

There is no difference from vegetal and animal aminoacids, it's the same chemical substance.

Just take several vegetal protein sources and you will have all essentials aminoacids like in meat.

It's a nonsense insanity a lab of grown meat.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

There is no difference from vegetal and animal aminoacids, it's the same chemical substance.

Just take several vegetal protein sources and you will have all essentials aminoacids like in meat.

It's a nonsense insanity a lab of grown meat.

There was already some big flak about Impossible Foods soy-based burgers being a low source of amino acids compared to actual burgers.

Is Impossible Meat A Complete Protein? - Tastylicious

Veganism and other plant-based diets are becoming increasingly more popular as time goes by. Whether for health or environmental reasons, more and more people choose to eliminate meat from their diet. But since meat is the primary source of dietary protein, this leaves a high demand for other...

tastylicious.com

"To put it simply, impossible meat does contain all nine essential amino acids. But unfortunately, the amount of each of them is rather low to fulfill your body’s need for these amino acids.

To compensate for that, you’d have to eat a large amount of impossible meat. But this comes with a lot of calories, which can lead to weight gain if you’re not being careful."

"Upside" foods is going to turn the meat industry upside down..

 

[BHAN85]

There was already some big flak about Impossible Foods soy-based burgers being a low source of amino acids compared to actual burgers.

Is Impossible Meat A Complete Protein? - Tastylicious

Veganism and other plant-based diets are becoming increasingly more popular as time goes by. Whether for health or environmental reasons, more and more people choose to eliminate meat from their diet. But since meat is the primary source of dietary protein, this leaves a high demand for other...

tastylicious.com

"To put it simply, impossible meat does contain all nine essential amino acids. But unfortunately, the amount of each of them is rather low to fulfill your body’s need for these amino acids.

To compensate for that, you’d have to eat a large amount of impossible meat. But this comes with a lot of calories, which can lead to weight gain if you’re not being careful."

"Upside" foods is going to turn the meat industry upside down..

I said "several" vegetal sources.

It's imposible to have all essential aminoacids only from one vegetal source.

But you can take several, mix them, and it's done.

All essential aminoacids exist in vegetal sources.

 

[Enigma SIG]

Cultured human meat burgers gonna be on the menu soon

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Cultured human meat burgers gonna be on the menu soon

See 2nd video in post #7: "Soylent Green is people!"

It was about a dystopian future where people thought they were eating a green super-food made with stuff like Soy and lentils...but in reality is was made out of recycled dead people.

 

[hembo]

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Any available cost comparison with actual meat & poultry? Recent that is...

 

[Trango Towers]

so how about haram meats...

Well notjing will be haram as its lab grown.

I am sure the mullahs will declare everything haram initially and few years down its halal

 

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Any available cost comparison with actual meat & poultry? Recent that is...

No prices mentioned but an Israeli competitor says their own is $7.70/lb.