The Director of Animal Health and Food Safety for the National Cattleman’s Beef Association says the USDA’s expertise in food inspections and labeling makes it the right agency to provide oversight on cell-culture protein products.
Rebecca Barnett tells Brownfield…
“We really want to make sure those products are held to the same inspection standard as real meat, as well as making sure the labeling is accurate, and we are not misleading consumers, so they know what they are actually consuming.”
USDA-FSIS and FDA jointly regulate cell-cultured food products derived from cell lines of livestock and poultry under a 2019 Formal Agreement.
NCBA supports USDA oversight of cell-cultured protein
