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US regulator allows first sales of lab-grown meat

Good Meat says it will sell its first batch of "cultivated" chicken to the José Andrés Group. Photo: AAP

Two companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, say they have received final US Department of Agriculture approval to sell lab-grown meat, paving the way for the country’s first-ever sales of the product.

With the approvals, the United States will become the second country after Singapore to allow the sale of so-called cultivated meat, which is derived from a sample of livestock cells that are fed and grown in steel vats.

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