FDA Clears California Company’s Lab-Grown Chicken as Safe to Eat

Good Meat is second firm to clear regulatory hurdle for cultivated meat product grown using animal cells

Illustration: Preston Jessee

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it considered cultivated chicken made by Good Meat Inc. safe to eat, making it the second company in the growing industry to have cleared a key regulatory hurdle.

Good Meat, based in Alameda, Calif., is the cultivated-meat arm of food-technology company Eat Just Inc. It is now the only company selling its chicken to consumers—but that is just in Singapore, the only country so far to permit the sale to consumers of meat grown from cells, outside of an animal.

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