Israeli company gets green light to make world’s first cultivated beef steaks
BY JONEL ALECCIA
Updated 6:11 PM EST, January 18, 2024
An Israeli company has received a preliminary green light from health officials to sell the world’s first steaks made from cultivated beef cells, not the entire animal, officials said. The move follows approval of lab-grown chicken in the U.S. last year.
Aleph Farms, of Rehovot, Israel, was granted the initial go-ahead by the Israeli Health Ministry in December, the company said in a news release. The move was announced late Wednesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the development “a global breakthrough.”
The firm said it planned to introduce a cultivated “petite steak” to diners in Israel. The beef will be grown from cells derived from a fertilized egg from a Black Angus cow named Lucy living on a California farm.
https://apnews.com/article/cultivated-meat-israel-aleph-farms-beef-7735ab4ca3cb7df1ccb06c60ba0b926a
