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Eric Schulze, a seven-year veteran of Upside Foods, has announced his resignation. Schulze a scientist, was recruited by Memphis Meats, the predecessor of Upside Foods, from a regulatory position at the FDA. During his tenure, he served as a Senior Scientist leading cell line development and attaining regulatory approval by the FDA.
Schulze stated, “After seven wonderful years it has come time to move on to a new phase of life to continue tackling challenges that have the potential to build a more verdant world.”
The question arises as to his motivation to resign given recent media reports that Upside Foods is having difficulty in scaling up production from cell-culture flasks to commercial-capacity bioreactors necessary to produce a marketable product.
A second aspect relates to what the FDA and USDA actually approved, given their split jurisdiction? If Upside cannot produce commercial quantities of acceptable cell-cultured chicken what in fact was been approved with respect to both equipment and the process?
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