Texas House Bill 242 would amend the state Health and Safety Code to define terms such as meat, beef, pork, and poultry to specifically exclude any “cell-cultured, plant-based, or insect-based food product.” The bill would declare a plant-based meat analogue as misbranded if it does not prominently display a term such as “analogue,” “meatless,” or “plant-based” immediately before the name of the product and a cultivated meat product as misbranded if it does not prominently display the term “cell-cultured” or “lab-grown” immediately before the name of the product.
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