No it doesn’t. Their head of regulatory did an interview and said they’re working in a hybrid project, it’s no surprise that this will be a pea protein X some chicken cells maybe.

They state they’re product is differentiated chicken cells into myocytes (muscle) and fibroblast. There’s no mention of adipose. Later their head of regulatory in an interview said that the combo of muscle and skin cells has comparable fat inherent when processed to equal the fat content of a store bought chicken breast. That makes no sense.

They don’t have FDA approval either. There’s a lot of false headlines regarding what happened here.

The FDA has no questions “at this time.” There’s never mention of approval. They’ve just said nothing basically.

The document submitted was upside’s own assessment of their process which was reviewed by the FDA.

They still need FDA approval. And USDA approval.

One of the most interesting aspects of the FDA/Upside documents is how they state that bovine, porcine, and chicken origin particles “may be present,” as they use serum from chickens, trypsin from porcine, and claim there’s residual bovine matter from other things.

Additionally you’ll see that upside never states FDA approval themselves but “no questions letter” throughout social media so their legal team is clearly active.

What really grabbed me was the potential hazards they state in their document including incorrect animal source origin.

But yea, it reads like this was on the heels of the Biden climate act clause and other stuff going on in Egypt right now at the conference