Study: Antibiotic alternative for cultivated meat

Researchers test an alternative to antibiotics in cultured meat production.

Antibiotics won't be necessary to avoid microbial contamination when cultivating meat at scale. That's according to researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in collaboration with the Singapore-HUJ Alliance for Research and Enterprise.

The study, published in the journal Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences, introduces Random Antimicrobial Peptide…