“The South Dakota House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday unanimously advanced a bill (HB1022) that aims to regulate nomenclature used on the label of cultivated protein products in the state.

The bill defines cultivated meat as "a product that is produced for use as human food, made wholly or in part from any cell culture or the DNA of a host animal, and grown or cultivated outside a live animal."

Under the bill, any cultivated meat product that is sold without being clearly labeled as "cell-cultured" or "lab-grown" will be considered mislabeled and subject to fines and other punishments to be determined by the state's Animal Industry Board.

Erin Rees Clayton, a senior scientific adviser for the Good Food Institute, asked the legislators to amend their bill to add the terms "cell-cultivated" and "cultivated" to their acceptable nomenclature, but the legislators did not make the amendment.

The USDA, which regulates cultivated protein labeling at the national level, has sanctioned "cell-cultivated" and "cultivated" as the appropriate names for the product when approving cultivated protein products for commercialization.

The South Dakota bill now moves to the full House for consideration.”