The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to assess the safety of cell-based products.
FSA and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) have been awarded £1.6 million ($2.1 million) in funding to launch a program for cell-cultivated products.
While “cell-based,” “cultivated” and “cultured” are preferred terminologies, other terms such as “in vitro,” “artificial,”
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Florida is just too large a market, and it’s too precedent-setting among jurisdictions for the cell-grown meat ventures to let the ban of their product go unchallenged. So, to no one’s surprise, Upside Foods has sued Florida officials in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida at
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Two U.S. states and one European country are banning manufacturing, selling, and distributing cultivated meat and poultry products. Italy enacted a ban last year, and Florida and Alabama enacted their laws on the books in only the last few days.
The bans were enacted after the robust cultivated meat industry
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“The Revolution That Died on Its Way to Dinner” By Joe Fassler was published on March 2 in the New York Times. It told of how the cultivated meat industry “was never a real prospect.”
But Florida is still taking it for real. Yesterday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a
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Ron DeSantis is back to doing what Governors do as he left the Presidential campaign trail. And Gov. DeSantis has just made it clear that he looks warmly on two bills in the Florida Legislature that ban the cultivation and sale of lab-grown meat products.
House Bill (HB) 435 and
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Health officials in Israel have sanctioned the sale of cultivated beef made by Aleph Farms.
Israel’s Ministry of Health has issued regulatory approval for Aleph Cuts in the form of a “No Questions” letter.
The first Aleph Cut to be introduced to diners in Israel — the cultivated Petit Steak
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An assessment of hazards in cell-based meat products has found considerable gaps in knowledge.
There are several areas where data is lacking or information is required to manage the risk or hazard that the products may pose. More work is needed from the cultured meat industry and by regulators to
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The Food and Drug Administration just cannot say enough about Good Meat Inc., the unit of East Just Inc. that plans to duplicate chicken meat in the laboratory. FDA is not saying much about the cultivated meat plans because the agency says it “has no further questions at this time
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