IIFA resolution 265 (10/26) on cultivated meat

A collective resolution of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy permitting the consumption and marketing of cultivated meat under six conditions. ¹

The Academy's council considered the research and deliberations on cultivated meat and the ruling on consuming and marketing it. ¹

The Academy reaffirmed its resolution 198 (4/21) on transformation, dilution and additives in food and medicine, and its resolution 94 (2/10) on human cloning. ¹ It defined cultivated meat as food made from cells usually taken from a living animal and grown in a laboratory over weeks with nutrients such as glucose, vitamins and salts, also called lab-grown or clean meat. ¹ It permitted consuming and marketing it on conditions: the cells come from an animal lawful to eat, either alive or ritually slaughtered; they are not grown in a forbidden medium such as spilled blood, and nothing forbidden such as pork gelatine is added; the whole process runs under a trusted specialist authority; the final product is fit to eat and harmless; it supplements animal meat rather than replacing it; and companies disclose the necessary information to consumers, with supervisory bodies checking compliance. ¹

The International Islamic Fiqh Academy, an organ of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, adopted this as resolution 265 at its 26th session in Doha (6–10 Dhu al-Qa'da 1446, 4–8 May 2025), and published it on iifa-aifi.org. ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.