FDA Approves First Lab-Grown Salmon Based Solely on Manufacturer’s Safety Claims

In its approval letter, the FDA said that it understood from Wildtype’s own safety testing…

Children's Health Defense

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

San Francisco-based ag-tech startup Wildtype Foods won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its lab-cultivated salmon last month.

The company, backed by Bezos Expeditions, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, agricultural giant Cargill, and many others, is already selling its lab-grown sushi-grade fish at James Beard award-winning restaurant, Kann in Portland, Oregon.

Over the next four months, the company plans to roll out the product in four more restaurants, then launch the fish in foodservice.

Wildtype is the fourth lab-grown meat company granted permission to sell its product in the U.S. Upside Foods and Good Meat have approval to sell chicken grown in a lab from animal cells…