GENERAL TERMS


🧼 CLEAN MEAT

Meat produced in an aseptic environment (petri dish). 
Grown in vitro (outside of the animal), the meat is not subject to the same pathogens and bacteria as conventionally farmed animals. 

πŸ‘©πŸΎβ€πŸ”¬ LAB GROWN

Meat “grown” or produced in a lab as opposed to raised on a farm. As the process becomes industrialized, cell based meat will be made in food production facilities, not labs. 

🧫 CELL BASED

Meat is synthesized from cells rather than from animal slaughter.

πŸ§ͺ CULTURED

The removal of cells from an animal or plant and their growth in a favorable artificial environment.


πŸ› FDA TERMS 


ANIMAL CELL CULTURE FOOD TECHNOLOGY

The controlled growth of animal cells from livestock poultry, fish, or other animals, their subsequent differentiation into various cell types, and their collection and processing into food.


πŸ“‹ UNDER REVIEW 


β€œCell cultured food from chickens” \\Eric Christianson, Purdue Farms

There are ongoing discussions between the FDA, USDA, and key cell based stakeholders to determine the labeling standard for cell based food products.

As of the most recent joint assembly meeting held by the FDA and USDA, October 2018:

Conventional meat farmers and corporations deeply invested in traditional meat farming are advocating for cell based meat to be labeled as, “cell cultured food from [meat]”.

Company representatives from Memphis Meats and Finless Foods are advocating for cell based meat t0 be labeled as, “cell based [meat]”.

*Due to the above mentioned statements, all of the General Terms listed are not to be considered as official FDA or labeling terms.


🌿 PLANT BASED SUBSTITUTES


Do not be fooled. Most “vegan” meat companies do not use any cell based technology. The only company currently using cell based tech to engineer plant based “meat substitutes” is Impossible Foods. Impossible Foods uses acellular fermentation to multiply a heme-containing protein called soy leghemoglobin. More on their process here: http://cellbased.link/m8e52d