News Impossible Foods clears legal battle over the ingredient that makes its meat ‘bleed’

[tom_mai78101]

A San Francisco federal appeals court upheld a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow Impossible Foods to use “heme,” the additive the company says makes its products “taste like meat.”

Had Impossible Foods lost this legal battle, it could have dealt a heavy blow to the company. Genetically engineered heme is what sets its products apart from other competitors like Beyond Meat that don’t use the ingredient.

The FDA used a weaker legal standard than it should have to approve the use of heme, the nonprofit Center for Food Safety argued in a lawsuit it filed last year. It said the FDA made its decision based on safety standards for food additives rather than on standards for color additives, which stipulate that there needs to be “convincing evidence” that the color additive causes no harm. Heme is a red ingredient that makes Impossible Foods’ products appear to “bleed.”

The appeals court ruling said that the FDA had “substantial evidence” to deem heme in Impossible Foods safe to eat, Bloomberg reported today. It also allowed the FDA to rely on research commissioned by Impossible Foods in its decision-making.

Impossible Foods clears legal battle over the ingredient that makes its meat ‘bleed’

A federal appeals court upheld the FDA’s decision on ‘heme’

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[The Helper]

Amazing that Beyond Foods did stuff to actually make it look like the meat was rare. They had to use some kind of weird ass shit to make that happen hopefully they really look deep into this kind of stuff. Who knows what the long term effects of this stuff is.