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Committee advances bill requiring cultivated meat products leaving processors be labeled as imitation
Summary
The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced House Bill 14 25, 8-1, to require processors to label cultivated (cell‑derived) meat leaving facilities as an "imitation meat product," after a committee debate over terminology and federal preemption risks.
The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced House Bill 14 25 by a vote of 8-1 after a wide-ranging discussion about how to label cell-cultivated meat products and which state agency should oversee them.
Senator Glick, presenting the measure, said the bill would "clearly label lab grown meat on the labels of products that are put in the grocery store in circulation for sale to the public" and defines “cultivated meat product” as animal protein grown from extracted animal cells in a facility. The bill places administration with the Board of Animal Health and requires packaging leaving processors to include the phrase "this is an imitation meat product." Senator Glick and Representative Culp emphasized the…
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