Study: Plant-based meat likely safer

Alt-meat products have a generally lower bacterial load than conventional meat products.

Plant-based meat alternatives may be more food safe than conventional meat, according to research from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium published in the journal Food Bioscience.

The researchers, part of the university’s Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology research group, analyzed eight vegetarian and six vegan alt-meat products available in Belgium in 2017. The tests were run after the…