Cultured-meat investment grows

Lynn Grooms
Jul 24, 2023
Jul 24, 2023

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Producing cultured cells at scale remains too expensive. It’s also difficult to achieve cultured-meat products with the taste and texture of meat from just cultured cells, says Andy Ko, a technology analyst at IDTechEx.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved at the end of 2022 a cultured-meat product for the first time. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued approvals June 21 for the sale of products known as “lab-grown” or “cultivated” meat. And the market continues to grow.

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Lynn Grooms writes about the diversity of agriculture, including the industry’s newest ideas, research and technologies as a staff reporter for Agri-View based in Wisconsin.