Laboratory progress creating many meaty questions

Meat grown in a laboratory after being cultured from animal muscle stem cells - a first in China - needs to undergo food safety evaluations and other reviews before it can be served on people's dining tables, industry insiders said.

Nanjing Agricultural University in Jiangsu province announced on Thursday that a research team had produced 5 grams of meat after cultivating pig muscle stem cells for 20 days.

Experts from the China Association of Agricultural Science Societies evaluated the claim and confirmed it the same day.