Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by aendruk on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:03PM (#33777049)

That’s correct. The challenge is that ensuring perfect sterility during production is tricky at scale. A small mistake could ruin a large batch of food, lowering total yields and raising costs.

Ideally the production process would include something analogous to the immune system to make it more robust. For certain contaminants simple outcompetition by probiotics might suffice.

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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by kube-system on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:06PM (#33777101)

The alternative, natural meat, is even trickier to keep sterile at scale. This is why it is advised to cook meat fully. The presence of bacteria on natural animal meat is common.

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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by aendruk on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:19PM (#33777306)

This is a misleading statement. We don’t even try to keep slaughtered meat sterile during production; the animal’s immune system makes that unnecessary.

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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by kube-system on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:21PM (#33777343)

We don't keep natural meat sterile during production because it would kill the chicken, which results in zero output of chicken.

Chickens' immune systems are quite fallible, and they do not keep the chicken in a sterile state. Chickens are full of dangerous bacteria despite having an immune system.

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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by aendruk on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:40PM (#33777635)

Yes, you understand correctly.

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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by lost_tourist on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:15PM (#33777238)

It's more than "common" it's almost 100% guaranteed.

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