Study: food safety of plant-based meat

Alt-meat samples have fewer pathogens than conventional meat, but they're not sterile.

Researchers from Germany's Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food surveyed 10 different plant-based meat analogues before their best-by dates to evaluate their food safety status.

The study, published in The Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, found that total bacterial counts in the various samples varied widely, though the researchers noted that the median…