Our Mission
The Association for Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Innovation (AMPS) represents the united voice of the cultivated meat industry. In collaboration with partners and allies, AMPS promotes the advancement of safe, high-quality cultivated meat to help meet the needs of a growing global population.AMPS advocates for the industry by sharing collective expertise, offering insight into our innovations, and maintaining a rigorous commitment to transparency with all stakeholders, including industry partners, policymakers, advocates, and consumers.
AMPS envisions a future where cultivated meat plays a vital role in a sustainable, ethical, and resilient food system. We aim to lead the global transition to better proteins by fostering social and consumer acceptance, promoting industry transparency, and upholding rigorous standards for safety, quality, and collaboration.
Our Members
About Us
Who we are
The Association for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Innovation, a not-for-profit association, represents the leading food companies dedicated to producing meat, poultry and seafood directly from animal cells, and is committed to helping advance the cell-cultivated meat industry and provide a science-based unified voice for this ever-changing industry to stakeholders, industry partners, policymakers, advocates and consumers.
What we do
Together, we work to educate the public about our industry and advocate for the policies and programs that is needed to continue to create a safe, fair and transparent pathway to market in the U.S. for our cell-cultivated meat products. We aim to create an environment for our industry that will support continued innovation for years to come.
About cell-cultivated meat, poultry and seafood
Our companies produce real meat, poultry and seafood directly from animal cells. Through appropriate regulatory pathways, products like cultivated chicken are in restaurants with more expected in the near future. We expect additional meat and seafood products to follow in restaurants and eventually grocery store shelves around the United States.
AMPS Innovation member companies are committed to this work because we believe that cell-cultivated meat, poultry and seafood will be a critical and sustainable component, in partnership with the overall agriculture sector, to meeting increased demand for animal protein as the world’s population continues to grow.
Current U.S. cell-cultivated meat regulatory landscape
March 2023: The FDA provided the second ever No Questions Letter to GOOD Meat, concluding they agree with the company that its cultivated chicken is safe.
June 2023: The USDA provided the first-ever U.S. Grants of Inspection for cultivated chicken, finalizing a comprehensive evaluation and allowing cultivated chicken to be served in restaurants and eventually sold in grocery stores.
July 2023: Select restaurants in the U.S. started serving cultivated chicken.
March 2025: The FDA issued a No-Questions Letter to Mission Barns, concluding that its cultivated pork fat is safe—the first cultivated pork fat in the world to receive federal clearance.
May 2025: The FDA issued a No-Questions Letter, the result of a rigorous federal safety clearance process, for Wildtype cultivated salmon—the first cultivated salmon in the world to receive federal clearance. Wildtype cultivated salmon now appears on menus across the United States, from Portland, Oregon to Washington, D.C.
July 2025: Mission Barns received USDA inspection and label clearance for its San Francisco pilot facility—the first cultivated pork fat in the world fully cleared for sale. Its products are available in California restaurants and markets.
July 2025: The FDA issued a No-Questions Letter to Believer, confirming that its cultivated chicken is safe—the third cultivated chicken to complete this rigorous federal safety review.
October 2025: Believer received USDA label approval and a Grant of Inspection for its North Carolina facility—the 3rd new food fully cleared in the U.S. in 2025, and the 5th in the United States to date.
Resources
Fostering a science-based, productive dialogue around our industry and our products is one of the top priorities for AMPS Innovation. We’ve shared some information here in support of this goal.