Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by NegativeLatency on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:02PM (#33777028)

IDK what they're talking about but I could imagine a pathogen that evolved on real animals having a field day at a meat farm without an immune system to fight back it would be reliant on the human operators cleanliness and other procedures.

Granted it might be much harder to have the initial infection happen in the first place since it's just a chunk of meat in a lab (no animal to walk around and get injured or otherwise interact with the environment, no poop, no lungs etc).

It will be interesting to see this technology develop.

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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by Enginerrrd on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:48PM (#33780999)

That's not that much different from existing industrial environments like brewing, or making mayonnaise or other things. I don't think that's much of a hurdle to have to overcome.

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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by NegativeLatency on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:12PM (#33790251)

Mayonnaise as an example is interesting, although the time that the mayonnaise exists for is probably shorter than meat.

With beer and other fermented stuff, the fermentation is a disinfecting process. For example people used to make really weak beer to drink instead of potentially drinking dirty water with something in it that would make you sick.

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