This Ingredient In Impossible Meat May Not Be Safe, Lawsuit Alleges
A new lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety (CFS) claims that a color additive used to make Impossible meat look more like real beef could be harmful to human health.
The additive, soy leghemoglobin, creates the "bleeding" effect in the plant-based meat alternative but is made of genetically engineered yeast. While the substance was deemed safe for consumption by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2019, the lawsuit is challenging this decision, saying that soy leghemoglobin wasn't subjected to rigorous-enough safety tests. (Related: Grocery Shortages To Expect in 2021, According to Experts.)
According to the lawsuit, there must be "convincing evidence" of safety for any color additives to get approved by the FDA, but no such regulation is in place for food additives. It's not clear which category the novel additive falls under. Soy leghemoglobin also has "no history or knowledge of human dietary exposure." Based on this, the CFS says the FDA's approval of soy leghemoglobin should be vacated.
Impossible Foods reportedly submitted an animal study about its products that the lawsuit says "did not meet the minimum standards for such studies" and that "should have triggered additional, long-term testing" which didn't occur.
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