USDA approves sale of Upside Foods cultivated chicken in U.S.

Upside Foods, a food technology company headquartered in Berkeley, California, aiming to grow sustainable cultured meat, blogged in part earlier, “Upside Foods has now received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, to produce and sell our cell-cultivated chicken in the United States! …We were the first in the world to receive the US FDA green light, back in November 2022,. With this latest news, we’ve crossed another big milestone and have now received full regulatory approval from both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, and the United States Department of Agriculture, USDA, to produce and sell our delicious cultivated chicken. Securing green lights from both of these U.S. regulatory bodies has always been a priority for UPSIDE. Regulation of cultivated meat mirrors that of conventionally-produced meat.” The Fly notes that Tyson Foods (TSN), Hormel Foods (HRL) and Beyond Meat (BYND) compete in some areas.