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The FDA has issued its first ever approval on a safety consultation for lab-grown fish. That makes Wildtype only the fourth company to get approval from the regulator to sell cell-cultivated animal products, and its cultivated salmon is now available to order from one Portland restaurant.<\/p>\n

Wildtype announced last week<\/a> that the FDA had sent a letter<\/a> declaring it had \u201cno questions\u201d about whether the cultivated salmon is \u201cas safe as comparable foods,\u201d the customary final step in the FDA\u2019s approval process for lab-grown animal products. The FDA has sole responsibility for regulating most lab-grown seafood, whereas the task is shared with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for cultivated meat.<\/p>\n

The FDA\u2019s pre-market safety consultation is voluntary, but is \u201chelpful for marketability,\u201d IP lawyer Dr. Emily Nytko-Lutz, who specializes in biotechnology patents, explained to The Verge<\/em>. \u201cThere are other pathways involving self-affirmation of safety as well as a longer food additive review process, but the FDA\u2019s authorisation with a \u2018No Questions\u2019 letter is a middle ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wildtype salmon is now on the menu at Haitian restaurant Kann in Portland, Oregon, and the company has opened a waitlist for the next five restaurants to stock the fish. It joins Upside Foods and Good Meat, two companies with permission to sell cultivated chicken in the US, while Mission Barns has been cleared by the FDA but is awaiting USDA approval for its cultivated pork fat. At a state level, the situation is more complicated, with eight states issuing bans<\/a> on lab-grown meat as the technology becomes a conservative talking point.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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