USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue has weighed in on the topic of regulating cell-cultured meat. At the first of a potential series of joint USDA/FDA meetings on how to move forward with regulation, he said there should be “bright lines” drawn on the oversight and jurisdiction for each agency. The FDA regulates food manufacturing, and USDA regulates meat safety through the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS). The meat industry jealously guards the role of FSIS in the industry, and the advent of this new product blurs potential regulatory lines and raises questions about which agency would have authority over it. FSIS is responsible for meat from “amendable species” (cattle, hogs, sheep, goats and horses) as well as poult...