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by Jaden Atkins, J.D. Candidate, Class of 2020, University of Arkansas School of Law<\/p>\n
Imagine the ability to create up to 80,000 burgers<\/a> from one single sample of a cow\u2019s leg and a simple serum.\u00a0 The impacts would all be enormous, from the reduction in land use and resulting environmental impact<\/a>, to victories for animal rights<\/a>, to human health impacts<\/a>.\u00a0 This may sound far-off, but it could soon be our reality.\u00a0 Cell-cultured or simply \u201ccultured\u201d meat is in development and is expected to be widely available in the next few years<\/a>.\u00a0 While this technology\u2019s potential impacts are incredible, cultured meat challenges our current framework of food regulation, requiring new solutions to old problems.<\/p>\n The FDA and USDA announced in March 2019<\/a> that they would share jurisdiction of cultured meat, but they gave very little detail on how this joint regulation will work.\u00a0 This article<\/a> examines the question: how can our agencies ensure that consumer safety and choice are preserved while still allowing this new technology\u2019s potentially world-changing impacts to come about?\u00a0 I conclude that (1) both the USDA and FDA have statutory authority to claim jurisdiction over cultured meat; (2) the framework proposed by the agencies properly gives the FDA jurisdiction over pre-harvest safety of cell-cultured meats and gives the USDA jurisdiction over post-harvest safety of meats that would normally fall under its jurisdiction because this plays to the strength of both agencies; and (3) for similar reasons, the agencies should also split jurisdiction of labeling such that the FDA determines whether cell-cultured meat fits within a newly defined statement of identity, and the USDA then regulates its labeling as if cultured meat were its traditional counterpart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Jaden Atkins, J.D. Candidate, Class of 2020, University of Arkansas School of Law Imagine the ability to create up to 80,000 burgers from one single sample of a cow\u2019s leg and a simple serum.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-climate-change","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}