20 Nov 2018 --- The founding innovator behind the world’s first lab-grown hamburger has welcomed the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement that they would jointly oversee the production of cell-cultured food products derived from livestock and poultry. But Mark Post, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology at Maastricht University, says that it could still take up to a decade until we really see “clean” meat take shape.