The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved San-Francisco-based Wildtype to become the nation’s first company to sell lab-grown seafood. Wildtype cleared the pre-market safety assessment in late May, with the FDA saying that the startup’s cultivated fish is “as safe as comparable foods produced by other methods.”
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