Singapore approves sale of lab-grown chicken nuggets in world first – ABC News

Singapore has given a US start-up the green light to sell lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called “clean meat” that does not come from slaughtered animals.

• The regulatory approval is part of Singapore’s plans to produce more of its own food
• Lab-grown or cultured meat is grown from animal muscle cells in a lab
• Globally more than two dozen firms are testing lab-grown fish, beef, seafood and chicken

The meat, to be sold as nuggets, will be…

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