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
Continue Reading Little to be found, but the lab-grown meat products are subject to bans
The 56th Arizona Legislature adjourned Sine Die, which is about a bill that failed to pass.
House Bill 2244 would have added meat labeling to Arizona’s Pure Food Control Act. It would have prohibited a person from misleading food.
Arizona Rep. Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott Valley, introduced HB 2244 to impose
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
Continue Reading Gov. DeSantis favors bills to keep lab-grown meat out of Florida
Two bills introduced into the Arizona Legislature may signal that the 2024 sessions of those “Laboratories of Democracy” will be something of an “alt-meat” grinder.
Arizona State Rep. David Marshall, R-Snowflake, and four co-sponsors have introduced House Bill 2121, prohibiting cell-cultured animal products.
HB2121 prohibits anyone in Arizona from offering
Continue Reading Arizona may join Italy by banning lab-grown meat from the state
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has a labeling manual that runs about 40 pages. And it seems there are always petitions for labeling changes in the pipeline. The bottom line is labeling can quickly become a complicated subject.
And some try to skirt the whole need for
Continue Reading Labeling lab-grown meat and poultry isn’t likely to be easy
There’s not going to be any lab -grown meat in Europe until the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) says so.
But according to Wolfgang Gelbmann, a senior scientific officer at EFSA in the novel foods area, Europe has not received any applications for review of cell-culture-derived food.
Speaking recently
Continue Reading EFSA ready to evaluate lab-meat applications whenever it gets one
“A taste of the future.”
That’s how cardiologist Uma Valeti, MD, CEO and founder of UPSIDE Foods (https://upsidefoods.com) describes the upshot of USDA’s approval this week to sell lab-grown chicken. The approval, the first in the nation, will allow Valeti’s company, as well as Eat Just and its
Continue Reading Food safety an important part of USDA’s approval of lab-grown chicken products
As expected, USDA has followed Singapore by approving for the United States, the growth by two companies of animal cells into chicken products that one day might be sold to consumers.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is granting inspections to two companies. It also issued instructions to its inspection
Continue Reading USDA’s regulatory approvals are in for two lab-grown chicken operations
The European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) based in Parma, Italy last week held a two-day scientific colloquium to gather views and insights from leading scientific minds, representatives of European, international, and national agencies, technology companies, and food operators, consumer groups, and an array of individuals and other organizations with an interest in
Continue Reading EFSA holds a two-day public meeting on food safety of lab-grown meat schemes
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 my purchase.
“Why would I need a watch,” I asked. Little did I know then
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