Nonprofit think tank the Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) has welcomed plans in today’s Biotech Act to expand the advice regulators provide to innovators bringing new foods to market. But it has described plans to exclude Novel Foods from regulatory sandboxes as a 'missed opportunity'.
New research has estimated that, given the right support, innovative ways of producing everyday foods using fermentation could add £9.8 billion (€11.2 billion) to the UK economy.
A new report from the FAO demonstrates for regulators and policymakers how existing food safety considerations and frameworks can be applied to precision fermentation. Here, we explore the key insights from this timely publication.
The UK government has invested £1.4 million in a new innovation hub, enabling the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to expand its expertise in new technologies including precision fermentation.
As cultivated pet food is cleared for sale in the UK, Alex Mayers explores what’s driving this new sector, and how it relates to cultivated meat for humans.
Current initiatives against cultivated meat in Austria, such as motions in the Carinthian state parliament and petitions in individual federal states, are based on inaccurate assumptions.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies has passed a law banning the production and marketing of cultivated meat and the use of meat-related names, such as 'salami' or 'steak', for plant-based meat products. The bill introduces fines between €10,000 and €60,000 for each violation.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies has passed a law banning the production and marketing of cultivated meat and the use of meat-related names, such as 'salami' or 'steak', for plant-based meat products. The bill introduces fines between €10,000 and €60,000 for each violation.
La recente relazione del Parlamento Europeo sulla EU Protein Strategy è un passo avanti verso una produzione e un consumo più sostenibili di proteine nell'Unione Europea.
