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The green light for lab grown meat to be sold in American restaurants and supermarkets could mean big business for a New Zealand company producing the "seeds" the flesh can be cultivated from.
For the first time, two companies have approval from the US Department of Agriculture to sell lab-grown meat commercially.
Its only the second country, after Singapore, to green light the cultivated meat that comes from livestock cells that are fed and grown in vats.
University of Canterbury biochemist Olivia Ogilvie is the co-founder and chief executive of Opo Bio, which harvests and develops the animal cells or meat seeds for the cultivated meat industry.
She says the U-S approvals could open up significant markets for them.Cut