Cultured Fish May Go From Lab to U.S. Plates This Year

  • Startup BlueNalu gets $60 million funding for trial factory
  • Company plans to test cellular fish at restaurants this year
BlueNalu’s whole-muscle, cell-based yellowtail prepared three ways.Source: BlueNalu Inc.
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U.S. consumers may be able to dine on cell-based fish as soon as this year.

BlueNalu Inc. raised $60 million as the San Diego-based startup seeks to open a trial factory and start testing cultured products at food outlets across the U.S. by year-end. The company is working on completing a regulatory review with the Food and Drug Administration, which could see it become the first to start selling cell-based fish in the $200 billion global seafood market.