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Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion
Upside Foods is putting plans for its Illinois-based cultivated meat factory on hold and laying off staff to focus on its existing plant.
In September 2023, a WIRED investigation revealed that Upside’s textured chicken filets, which until recently it served at a series of monthly dinners at Bar Crenn in San Francisco, were not made in the large bioreactors within EPIC but instead were produced at a very small scale in two-liter roller bottles. In December 2023, Australia and New Zealand’s shared food safety regulator began the regulatory approval process for meat grown from culture quail cells from the startup firm Vow. With the industry still in its early days and venture capital funding tight, Molino welcomes a more stepwise approach to scaling cultured meat rather than betting big on vast meat-brewing factories.
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