“The UK has become the first European country to approve putting lab-grown meat in pet food.
Regulators cleared the use of chicken cultivated from animal cells, which lab meat company Meatly is planning to sell to manufacturers.
The company says the first samples of its product will go on sale as early as this year, but it would only scale its production to reach industrial volumes in the next three years.”
Lab-grown meat approved for pet food in the UK
“The UK has become the first European country to approve putting lab-grown meat in pet food.
Regulators cleared the use of chicken cultivated from animal cells, which lab meat company Meatly is planning to sell to manufacturers.
The company says the first samples of its product will go on sale as early as this year, but it would only scale its production to reach industrial volumes in the next three years.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c19k0ky9v4yo
Also in the article “The Animal and Plant Health Agency—part of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs—gave the product the go-ahead.”
I think there are a bunch of EAs working at Defra—I wonder if they helped facilitate this?