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July 17, 2024

Europe's first cultivated meat approval: UK startup Meatly gets green light for lab-grown pet food

The startup hopes to have cultivated chicken pet food on shelves by the end of 2024

Sadia Nowshin

4 min read

UK lab-grown meat startup Meatly has become the first company in the world to get regulatory clearance to sell pet food made from cultivated meat. It’s also the first in Europe to have a cultivated meat ingredient approved for sale. 

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The Meatly team.
The Meatly team, Owen Ensor on the far left. Credit: Jack Lawson, Meatly.
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Sadia Nowshin

Sadia Nowshin was a reporter at Sifted covering foodtech, biotech and startup life. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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