CULT Food Science Corp. announced that its subsidiary Further Foods Inc. plans to submit its feeding trial design protocol to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) later this month in order to gain regulatory approval for the use of cell-cultivated chicken in its Noochies! dog food. After FDA approval is received, usually within 45 days, feeding trials will begin in the fourth quarter of this year.
Further Foods is working with veterinary nutritionist Sarah Dodd, BVSc, MSc, Ph.D., to design a target animal safety (TAS) study to determine if the inclusion of cell-cultivated chicken will be safe and effective in Noochies! formulations.
“This is a transformative moment for CULT Food Science as a company,” said Mitchell Scott, chief executive officer of CULT Food Science.
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The TAS study, designed by Dodd, would be a 26-week, minimally invasive feeding study with 30 healthy adult dogs of a variety of breeds and ages. Each animal would receive one control dose, one test dose and one high inclusion dose. During the study, feed intake data, hematology, serum biochemistry, urinalysis, weight, fecal analysis and digestibility factors will all be monitored to ensure cell-cultivated meat is safe for the dogs.
