The Australian Ministry of Health has officially approved the sale of three types of meat grown from Japanese quail cells. About this informs The Guardian.
The relevant decision was made by the state institution Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), which conducted a two-year inspection and gave the “green light” to the products of Vow Foods, one of the leaders in the field of cultured meat.
Such products will soon appear on the menus of prestigious restaurants in Melbourne and Sydney, including Bottarga and Nel. The list of dishes will include laboratory pate, synthetic foie gras and even an edible tallow candle. Vow products have been on the Singapore market for more than a year, where, according to the company, demand for them is growing by 200% every month.
Thus, Vow became the third company in the world to receive permission to sell cultured meat – US startups Eat Just and Upside Foods previously received similar approval, although their products are still limited in availability.
The CEO of the company, George Peppu, noted:
“The company’s goal is not only to create an alternative to meat, but also to form a new culture of consumption.” He also added that “synthetic foie gras already costs less than real foie gras.”
Before focusing on Japanese quail, Vow experimented with growing cells from more than 50 different animal species. According to Peppu, the new product should become not just a substitute for traditional meat, but a qualitatively new food – tasty, useful and affordable.
