Legal Challenge to the FDA’s Approval of “Blood” in Plant-Based Meat
By EsqSocial Corporation 09/02/21
By now, most of us have seen plant-based “meat” in supermarkets and restaurants. For one of those plant-based meat substitutes, ImpossibleTM Burger, a lawsuit is underway challenging the FDA’s approval of the compound used to simulate blood in the “meat.” In order to simulate blood, as in ground beef, ImpossibleTM Foods, the maker of ImpossibleTM Burger, developed a genetically engineered soy protein called soy leghemoglobin. It was created by taking DNA from the roots of soybeans and inserting...
By: Womble Bond Dickinson