Florida’s Lab-Grown Meat Ban Survives Upside Foods’ Appeal

Florida’s restrictions on lab-grown meat aren’t preempted by federal law, the Eleventh Circuit said Monday.

The state’s ban on “cultivated meat” isn’t regulating plaintiff Upside Foods’ “ingredients, premises, facilities, or operations,” and thus the state’s rule doesn’t interfere with federal regulation under the Poultry Products Inspection Act, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled.

“Just like state bans on foie gras and horsemeat, Florida’s categorical ban on lab-grown chicken is not an ingredient regulation that is preempted by the” federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, said Judge Andrew L. Brasher.

The decision upheld a Northern District of ...