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Club-goers take first bites of lab-made chicken

Nature Biotechnology volume 39, pages 257–258 (2021)Cite this article

Slaughter-free meat grown in bioreactors reaches select diners in Singapore in the form of chicken nuggets.

The Singapore Food Agency’s decision marks the world’s first commercial approval of cultured, or cell-based, meat. “It’s really exciting,” says Elizabeth Derbes, associate director of regulatory affairs at the Good Food Institute (GFI), an industry organization that supports meat alternatives. “It’s an incredibly auspicious sign that these products are not just technologically feasible at the bench research stage, but feasible as a scaled product.”

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Waltz, E. Club-goers take first bites of lab-made chicken. Nat Biotechnol 39, 257–258 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-00855-1

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