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  • A food technician tests a cooked 3D printed plant-based steak mimicking real beef and produced by Israeli start-up Redefine Meat during a demonstration for Reuters at their facility in Rehovot, Israel June 29, 2020. Picture taken June 29, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

    3D-printed plant-based steaks could arrive in 2021

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    Ann Smajstrla
    Ann Smajstrla
    06.30.2020

    You could soon be able to enjoy 3D-printed, plant-based flank steak at home. Israeli startup Redefine Meat says that’s what it hopes to accomplish for customers when it launches 3D-printed steak alternatives in 2021. The product will enter a market where plant-based meats, like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, are rising in popularity.

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    Impossible Foods gets FDA approval to sell fake meat in grocery stores

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    Amrita Khalid
    Amrita Khalid
    07.31.2019

    Fake meat is coming to a barbecue near you. Impossible Foods has been granted approval by the FDA to sell its plant-based meat in US grocery stores this fall, reported Bloomberg. After expressing some initial doubts, the agency formally ruled that soy leghemoglobin -- the additive in Impossible Burgers that gives it a meat-like flavor and makes it "bleed" -- is safe for consumers to eat. If no objections are raised, the FDA rule change becomes effective on September 4th.