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Article History

Received: 8 September 2025

Accepted: 25 February 2026

First Online: 5 March 2026

Declarations

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: The study was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Toxi-Coop Zrt. and conducted according to the National Research Council Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (National Research Council, 2011) and in compliance with the principles of the Hungarian Act 2011 CLVIII (modification of Hungarian Act 1998 XXVIII) and Government Decree 40/2013 regulating animal protection.

: Not applicable.

: The authors disclose that financial support for the research described herein was provided by Solar Foods Oy, Härkälenkki 11 Finland, 01730 Vantaa. Authors Bean Choi, John R. Endres, and Amy Clewell were former salaried toxicologists of AIBMR Life Sciences, Inc. (Seattle, WA, USA) at the time of manuscript preparation. AIBMR was contracted by the study sponsor as an independent third party to determine appropriate study protocols and dose selections, place the studies, approve the study plans, to monitor the toxicological study herein described, to analyze and interpret the resulting data, and to prepare the manuscript. Author Gábor Hirka is owner and Managing Director at Toxi-Coop Zrt. (with test facilities in Budapest and Balatonfüred, Hungary); author Erzsébet Béres, is a salaried employee of Toxi-Coop. Toxi-Coop was contracted by AIBMR to develop the study plans and conduct, analyze, and interpret and report the results of the toxicological studies herein described. The authors declare no additional conflicts of interest regarding the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.