Rider puts USDA in charge of lab-grown meat

More than a century ago, Congress put the USDA in charge of meat safety, including regulation of slaughterhouses and packing plants. A rider on the USDA-FDA funding bill for fiscal 2019, scheduled for a House Appropriations Committee vote on Wednesday, would expand the USDA’s food safety portfolio to cover lab-grown meat, variously called clean meat… » Read More

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