USDA allows lab-grown meat to be sold to US consumers

Approval means US becomes second country in the world, after Singapore, to allow sale of meat grown from animal cells

Lab-grown meat will be able to be sold to US consumers for the first time, with the federal government granting permission for two separate businesses to offer their chicken products to people.

Both Upside Foods and Good Meat said on Wednesday they had been given permission by the US Department of Agriculture to produce and sell chicken that has been grown from a cluster of sample animal cells in large metal vats.