Lab-grown meat receives its first regulatory approval in Singapore

Singapore’s food regulatory agency has just approved the sale of cultured meat developed by US start-up Eat Just. This is the first time that any nation has allowed the sale of synthetic meat grown from animal cells. It can now be sold in the country as an ingredient in ‘chicken bites’.

‘Our chicken is not “artificial”,’ says Eat Just spokesperson Andrew Noyes. ‘Cultured meat is made from animal cells, the same input and essential composition of conventional meat,’ he explains.