Israeli company gets green light to make world's first cultivated beef steaks
Aleph Farms of Israel has received the green light from health officials to produce and sell the world's first steaks made from cultivated beef cells, not the entire animal
An Israeli company has received the 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 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.
The company provided no timeline for when the new food would be available. It has also filed for regulatory approval in other countries, officials said.
