USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has sent a prerule on labeling of meat and poultry products made using animal cell culture technology to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review.
The Trump administration targeted April of this year to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the topic but had no final timeline identified when they included it in their regulatory agenda released in the fall of 2020.
A prerule is defined as a rule in the earliest stage of rulemaking, and may include actions agencies are considering that may or may not ever become actual rules, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
Contacts say this is similar to what FDA did on similar issues relative to cell-based products. It is not clear what timeline the Biden administration has in mind relative to this topic, one that will be very closely watched by the U.S. food and agriculture industry.