Promoting its leafy greens as cleaner and safer for the planet and people, Eden Green Technology has struck a deal with Walmart to market its produce, which is grown without soil in vertical racks in
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Angling in the lab: Fish fry without the hook, line or sinker
There’s an art to catching a fish, as many an avid angler will tell you. But for biochemist Mike Selden, CEO of Finless Foods, it takes some serious science to grow one. Serious science such
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Growers form controlled-environment agriculture safety group
A new food safety group for controlled-environmental agriculture will sprout in June in Chicago, according to leading CEA growers. “The intent is to establish food safety standards,” says a spokesman.
Brightfarms, AeroFarms and Little Leaf
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Lab-made meat, poultry get big funding boost from big food
It’s the future of meat and poultry — or at least part of the future.
That’s what some investors, among them global agricultural heavyweight Cargill Inc., are saying about meat grown in labs from cells
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Quorn agrees to change labels to reveal main ingredient is mold
Described by critics as being made from “vat-grown fungus,” Quorn Foods Inc. products are getting new labels prominently declaring they contain mold.
This sample of the required warning language and placement
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Marquee food safety event in Tampa begins with talk of change
The annual meeting of the International Association for Food Protection begins its four-day run today in Tampa. With 4,000 members and 54 affiliates around the globe, IAFP’s yearly meeting is a marquee event for world
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On the front lines of food safety — farmworkers have your back
Who better than the people in the front lines to recognize and call out the enemy?
That’s the underlying strategy of an approach to food safety that relies on farmworkers to spot possible problems in
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Sustainable organics group urges support for soil-free growing
In advance of the National Organics Standards Board meeting in April, the board’s Crops Subcommittee shared a draft proposal calling for the end of organic certification for hydroponic and aquaponic growers. This proposal, if enacted,
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Clean, safe, humane — producers say lab meat is a triple win
“The meatball that changed the world.”
That was the enthusiastic prediction early last year from Uma Valeti, a cardiologist and now CEO of Memphis Meats, as he admired the freshly cooked meatball arranged gourmet-style
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One year later, White House still sitting on organic aquaculture standards
The folks who write POLITICO’S Agriculture Tip Sheet were celebrating an anniversary Tuesday. Not their own, but the one-year anniversary of USDA’s proposed organic aquaculture standards being hung up in the Office of Management and
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