Where cultivated meat can be sold
As cultivated meat innovation continues to advance around the world, more cultivated ingredients and end-products are successfully navigating the regulatory path to market. Read on for the most up-to-date status on where these products can be sold.
An agricultural innovation just getting started
Cultivated meat—real meat, grown directly from animal cells—holds the potential to transform our global food system for the better. Today, cultivated meat has been approved for sale in a few regions, but its availability is still limited in geography and production volume. Additional regulatory approvals and solutions to scaling challenges are needed to bring cultivated meat and ingredients to a broader range of consumers. Propelling the cultivated meat industry to maturity will require an influx of public and private investments (in R&D, manufacturing, and infrastructure), a robust scientific ecosystem, and greater cross-sector collaboration.
Regions, companies, and product types
At this time, cultivated meat can be sold in Singapore, the United States, and Australia. A total of seven companies—UPSIDE Foods, GOOD Meat, Vow, Wildtype, Mission Barns, Believer Meats, and Gourmey/PARIMA—have received regulatory clearance in certain countries to sell multiple different cultivated meat products.
As with any emerging industry, not all of these first-mover companies that earned regulatory clearance are operating today. The closing of a small number of companies, however, is not necessarily indicative of the health or potential of the entire sector. Early signs point to the emergence of a robust ecosystem of specialist companies that can offer vital business-to-business technology solutions, alleviating the burden on individual companies to innovate across the entire value chain. Having a diversity of players and producers can be a very good thing, leading to a greater diversity of ideas, solutions, and strategies.
Given the evolving nature of regulatory status and company operations, the information on this page is updated regularly using data from publicly available sources, all cited below. Explore our year-by-year account of cultivated meat regulatory milestones from 2022-2025.
Signals of global market expansion are emerging
Additional cultivated meat products are under regulatory review in at least eleven countries or regions, including the European Union, the United States, Singapore, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Thailand, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Each of these countries has established robust regulatory pathways for cultivated meat, while others around the world are still in development.
We are working in the United States, Europe, Brazil, India, Israel, Japan, and throughout the Asia-Pacific region to ensure rigorous and fair food-safety regulatory processes for cultivated meat.
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