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   cement_angel (cement_angel@gigaohm.bio)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 12:15:33 JST cement_angel

   in reply to
   The quote about the agency having “no questions at this time” implies that the Lab Made Fake Salmon was just pushed through without any evaluation at all, which is not true. As you can see (pdf link below) questions were put forth and answers given.
   
   In no way am I defending this Fake Salmon, but several questions were asked by the FDA and guidelines 'recommended'. Were there enough/appropriate questions to determine that the Fake Salmon should be considered “as safe as comparable foods produced by other methods”? I have no idea.
   
   However, if anyone would take the time to read some of these questions and Wildtype’s answers, most assuredly they would never consider consuming this monstrosity of a meat.
   
   One of Wildtype’s answers:
   "Given the baseline expression of mesenchymal lineage genes (as described in the response to Question 4 above), the theoretical potential for differentiation into these cell types exists. This is unlikely
   for several reasons. ... differentiation is a complex process that depends upon defined sequences of gene expression changes, a conducive extracellular substrate, and often a nutrient media that promotes differentiation; none of these are part of Wildtype’s production process, and the company has not observed spontaneously differentiated cells in any of its harvested cell material to
   date. Finally, even if the company’s production cells were to undergo spontaneous differentiation, all possible differentiation lineages for this mesenchymal cell line (i.e. fat, muscle, connective tissue) are
   regularly found in conventional salmon."
   
   https://www.fda.gov/media/186756/download