Innovation Active Updated Jul 6, 2026
The cultivated-meat approval path
Whether meat grown from animal cells can reach American plates depends on a slow, company-by-company regulatory march: an FDA pre-market safety consultation, then a USDA grant of inspection. Each clearance is a precedent for the next, and every one is a test of whether the post-animal economy can actually scale past the press release.
The story so far
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Mar 7, 2025 Latest
The FDA completed a pre-market consultation for Mission Barns' cultured pork fat, extending the path beyond poultry to a fat-cell product meant to be blended into plant-based meats.
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Jun 21, 2023
UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat received landmark grants of inspection from the USDA, the final clearance letting them sell cultivated chicken in the United States.
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Mar 21, 2023
The FDA completed a second consultation, clearing GOOD Meat, Inc's cultivated chicken with no further questions about its safety conclusion.
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Nov 16, 2022
The FDA completed its first pre-market consultation for a human food made from cultured animal cells, telling UPSIDE Foods it had no further questions about the firm's safety conclusion for cultivated chicken.
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