The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved San-Francisco-based Wildtype to become the nation’s first company to sell lab-grown seafood. Wildtype cleared the pre-market safety assessment in ...

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Cultured meat is gaining momentum, with large production facilities under construction and the arduous approval process for the finished products inching forward. Most of the industry’s focus thus far ...

It may never have occurred to you to hanker for a supper of, say, flame-broiled North Atlantic right whale, braised shank of black rhino, or of another critically endangered species. But should such a ...

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Imagine dining on salmon with no worries about mercury, toxic metals or plastics. Or concerns about dwindling fish stocks. Or, from a food safety viewpoint, about contamination from salmonella or ...

Singapore-based cultivated-seafood firm Umami Bioworks has partnered with US firm Friends & Family Pet Food Co. (FnF) to create lab-grown fish treats for cats, reports Just Food. Claimed to be a world ...