[1/5] A woman tastes lab-grown meat served by CellX at an event to mark the opening of the cultivated meat company's pilot production facility in Shanghai, China August 9, 2023.
As part of an event on Wednesday for government, investors and media, the cultivated meat company CellX served up meat developed in a laboratory from animal cells.
The offerings included lab-grown meat kebabs and tofu with minced lab-grown meat.
The company, founded in 2020, is among a handful of front runners in lab-grown meat production in China.
(This story has been corrected to say lab-grown meat, not lab-grown lamb, in paragraph 3)($1=7.20 yuan)Reporting by Casey Hall; Editing by Miyoung Kim and Neil FullickOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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