Navigation Cultivated meat company loses bid for preliminary injunction against new Florida law
A federal judge has turned down a cultivated meat company’s request to block the enforcement of a new Florida law that bans the sale or manufacture of meat products produced from cultured animal cells.
Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida handed down the opinion on Oct. 11, concluding that California-based Upside Foods Inc. is not entitled to a preliminary injunction because its preemption claims are not likely to succeed.
The counsel for Upside Foods, the nonprofit public-interest law firm Institute for Justice, argued that the Florida ban on cultivated meat products was preempted by a federal law, the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA). But Walker said the plaintiff had not met the burden of proof required for imposing an injunction.
