What we know · Regulation · United States
United States
The United States has a named category for cultured animal cells and a consultation route for them. Mycoprotein has been sold there since the early 2000s.
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What is decided here
The FDA's own name for this category is human food made with cultured animal cells, and it keeps a public inventory of it. [cm-01]
FDA, undated inventory, read at the check date · from What is cultivated meat, and where can anyone actually buy it?
At our check date that inventory listed five completed pre-market consultations. [cm-02]
FDA, undated inventory, read at the check date · from What is cultivated meat, and where can anyone actually buy it?
The same report dates the brand's launch to 1985 in the United Kingdom and 2002 in the United States. [mb-07]
AgFunderNews, 17 August 2026 · from What is mycoprotein, and is it a fungus or a fermentation?
Kinds of food here
Cultivated
Food grown from animal cells in a tank rather than from a whole animal.
Mycoprotein
Foods whose protein comes from a filamentous fungus grown in a tank.