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2023: U.S. allows artificial meat sales for first time

At the end of June 2023, the Ministry agriculture USA gave permission to sell. In artificial meat the United States, a laboratory-grown chicken from Good Meat and will appear. Upside Foods

Non-animal-derived meat is already available on store shelves and has previously been offered as a variety of plant-based beef, pork and chicken. However, many companies are trying to grow meat from living cells. They are placed in bioreactors and fed a mixture of proteins, amino acids, minerals, sugar, salt and other nutrients.

In the United States, for the first time allowed the sale of artificial meat

Earlier, Good Meat received a slew of regulatory approvals for chicken production in Singapore. Since the company entered the market in Singapore, its chicken has been included on the menu of high-end restaurants, popular trays, through the FoodPanda delivery platform, and stood on the market at one of Huber's Butchery, a major producer and supplier of high-quality meat.

Under the U.S. Federal Meat Inspection Act and the June 2023 Poultry Product Inspection Act, all meat and poultry sold for commercial purposes must be inspected to make sure they are safe, healthy and properly labeled. To do this, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, sends inspectors to abattoirs and processing facilities, and for the first time in history will send inspectors to GOOD Meat and other meat and poultry facilities.

As part of the USDA's approval, GOOD Meat received approval to inspect its Alameda demonstration plant, as did its contract manufacturing partner, JOINN Biologics. From June 2023, both companies will undergo monthly inspections, which include inspections of facilities and equipment, standard sanitation operating procedures, and a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and monitoring food safety threats.

Immediately after obtaining permission for the inspection, production of the first batch of grown chicken began, which will be sold to the populist restaurateur and humanist chef Jose Andres. Andres is the 2023 owner of Jose Andres, which operates more than 30 restaurants across the country that will serve grown chicken from GOOD Meat. Andres announced that the first dishes from artificial meat will appear in Washington, but did not refine in which restaurant from Jose Andres.

According to estimates by the analytical firm Grand View Research, the market for artificial meat in 2022 amounted to $247 million. However, experts predict significant growth and predict that its volume will be $25 billion by 2026.^[1]

2022: Start of construction of bioreactors in the USA

In May 2022, the United States announced the construction of the world's largest bioreactors for the production of artificial meat, according to The Guardian. According to experts, this step could be a turning point for the industry.

The American company Good Meat said that more than 13 thousand tons of artificial chicken and beef will be grown in bioreactors per year. Animal cells will be used in them, so cattle will not need to be slaughtered to produce meat.

According to company representatives, 10 new Good Meat bioreactors are under construction, each with a capacity of 250 thousand liters. The construction of the facility in the United States should be completed within three months, they will be commissioned at the end of 2024. By 2026, production will reach 11 thousand tons per year, and by 2030 - 13 thousand tons.

2020: Singapore first in the world to approve the sale of artificial meat

In early December 2020, Singapore was the first in the world to approve the sale of artificial meat. Eat Just received the appropriate permission from the Republic's Food Agency.

We are talking about nuggets from artificial chicken, which is produced under the Good Meat brand. For its production, cells are taken from live chickens by biopsy, and then cultured in special containers filled with plant-based nutrient liquid (an earlier technology using calf embryonic serum was used at the production line in Singapore by early December 2020).

Singapore first in the world allowed the sale of artificial meat

Eat Just claims that "laboratory-derived meat is significantly cleaner in terms of microbial content." The analyses also showed a higher content of protein, various amino acids, healthy fats and minerals.

One of the founders of Eat Just, Josh Tetrick, expressed satisfaction with the fact that "the meat of real animals will go on sale for the first time, but without the need to kill at least one animal or cut down at least one tree," writes The Financial Times.

Tetrick also pointed out that the prices of nuggets will be in line with the value of premium hens when they start being sold in restaurants in Singapore "in the very near future." He did not name specific prices.

Bloomberg suggests that since cultured meat is considered "real meat," the demand for it may be higher than for plant meat. In Europe and the United States, approval of lab-grown meat is moving slowly, the agency said.

The prospects for alternative "meat" are associated with realistically achievable hypoallergenicity, energy-efficient production, as well as a reduction in the environmental burden compared to farms.^[2]

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