Sometime during the pandemic, I found myself at the Apple store in Austin. I needed a replacement for my MacBook Air and a nice lady helping me suggested I add a $400 Apple watch to
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: New Products
Sometime during the pandemic, I found myself at the Apple store in Austin. I needed a replacement for my MacBook Air and a nice lady helping me suggested I add a $400 Apple watch to…
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: New ProductsExperts are to meet in Singapore next month to talk about the safety of cell-based food.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) will organize the event…
Continue Reading Safety of cell-based — lab-grown — food on FAO and WHO agendaThe USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has extended the public comment period on an advance notice of a proposed rulemaking regarding labeling of lab-grown meat and poultry products made by using cultured cells …
Continue Reading FSIS extends comment period on the labeling of lab-grown meat and poultry products
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has responded to petition sponsors with differing opinions about how lab-grown “meat” and “beef” should be labeled.
The FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development has denied the…
Continue Reading Petition responses point to direction that regulators are going on lab-grown meat labeling
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Thursday published an advance notice of a proposed rulemaking (ANPR) to solicit comments and information regarding the labeling of lab-grown “meat and poultry products ” made by…
Continue Reading FSIS seeks more comments on labeling lab-grown ‘meat and poultry’ products
Eat Just Inc., the privately-held San Francisco company known for plant-based alternatives to egg products, has gained regulatory approval in Singapore to produce and sell lab-grown chicken meat.
Approval by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA)…
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Some news just won’t go away. That’s true not only for issues such as political campaigns and various celebrities’ affairs, but also — of all things, meat that isn’t meat.
On a local level —…
Continue Reading Meatless burgers sizzle up interest . . . and some doubts
New Zealand Food Safety, a unit of the Ministry for Primary Industries, is seeking input about a draft strategy, wanting to hear from consumers, customers and partners about meeting the needs of New Zealanders and…
Continue Reading New Zealand opens comment period on draft of strategy
An independent international research team has stepped forward with cues and pointers for the fledgling lab-grown meat industry. Authors, Christopher Bryand, and Courtney Dillard say “cultured meat,” as they call it, must confront “some consumer…
Continue Reading UK-USA research team finds pitfalls, opportunities for lab-grown meat
Justing repeating its choice for a preferred regulatory agency did not sound like much of a strategy for the meat industry, and the “name game” left the cell-cultured food technologists looking a little confused.
After…
Continue Reading Regulatory regime for cell-cultured food is on agenda for 2019