07:25 AM EDT, 07/18/2024 (MT Newswires) -- CULT Food Science ( CULTF ) , a lab-grown food company, on Thursday said its subsidiary, Further Foods, expects to complete the design of the feeding trials necessary for regulatory approval of dog food products containing cell-cultivated chicken later this month.

Further Foods is designing a target animal safety (TAS) study. and the feeding trial design protocol will be submitted to the U.S. FDA later this month.

The proposed trial is a 26-week study involving 30 healthy, adult dogs of a variety of breeds and ages. Further Foods intends to begin the feeding trials in the fourth quarter of this year once the FDA approves the design of the protocol.