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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Human Food Made with Cultured Animal Cells Inventory

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Cultured chicken cell material

Gallus gallus domesticus

Believer Meats

Our use of a term to refer to the subject of a consultation should not be understood as our recommendation of that term as an appropriate common or usual name for declaring the substance.

Publicly disclosable information only.

CCC (Cell Culture Consultation) No.: 039
Food: Cultured Gallus gallus domesticus (chicken) cells, with characteristics of fibroblasts (connective tissue), in the form of cell biomass
Species of origin : Gallus gallus domesticus
Sponsor: Believer Meats
Sponsor safety narrative: Final submission with 8 amendments (Part 1) (disclosable information) (PDF, 8.1 MB)
Final submission with 8 amendments (Part 2) (disclosable information) (PDF, 13.4 MB)
Final submission with 8 amendments (Part 3) (disclosable information) (PDF, 11.4 MB)
Final submission with 8 amendments (Part 4) (disclosable information) (PDF, 17.4 MB)
Final submission with 8 amendments (Part 5) (disclosable information) (PDF, 2.5 MB)
Disclosable Amendments of Supplement (PDF, 992 kB)
FDA response: Jul 24, 2025
FDA response letter (PDF, 169 kB)
Sep 24, 2025
Additional FDA correspondence (PDF, 156 kB)
FDA scientific memo: Jul 24, 2025
Scientific memo (PDF, 1.0 MB)

 


Notes:


  • CCC No.: Cell Culture Consultation (CCC) file number that the FDA has assigned to the pre-market consultation
  • Food: Description of the food resulting from the process defined in the final submission
  • Sponsor safety narrative: Sponsor’s final submission in the consultation explaining their basis for concluding that the cultured cell material is safe for use as human food
  • FDA response: Letter that the FDA sent in response to the firm at the completion of the pre-market consultation
  • FDA scientific memo: Scientific memo that documents the FDA’s evaluation of the sponsor’s final submission
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