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
State legislatures introduced more than 700 bills regarding food and food safety in 2019, with 132 being enacted and 17 adopted into law, reports The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
Laws in 42 of
Continue Reading Significant food safety action this past year during state legislative sessions
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)
Continue Reading Eat Just Inc. gets approval in Singapore for lab-grown chicken
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says federal food safety agencies “could strengthen existing efforts to prepare for oversight of cell-cultured meat.”
However, the most interesting part of this latest GAO
Continue Reading Getting-to-Market barriers for cell-cultured meat discussed in new GAO report
A bipartisan pair of influential Western senators wants to “cement into law how government agencies regulate food produced using animal cell-culture technology.”
Sens. Mike Enzi, R-WY, and Jon Tester, D-MT, have introduced legislation to ensure
Continue Reading Enzi-Tester bill would make FDA-USDA agreement on cell-culture technology the law of the land
The mystery Nebraska State Sen. Carol Blood created briefly Tuesday by withdrawing her bill to limit the use of the term “meat” on product labels in the state was short-lived.
On Wednesday she introduced an
Continue Reading Nebraska bill would ban ‘meat’ labels on lab-grown, insect and plant ‘products’
The USDA and FDA recently announced their historic agreement to jointly regulate meat grown from animal cells, helping pave the pathway to commercialization of what’s often called cultured meat, clean meat, and now the
Continue Reading Of diamonds and meat: Culturing a better future
During the recent Good Food Institute conference on cell-cultured meat, an industry executive remarked that he tries to stay away from politics and focus on his company and developing the technology. That certainly is
Continue Reading There’s room on the hamburger bun for cell-cultured meat and politics
Commercial speech is not easily restricted. Earlier this summer, some state restrictions on speech by companies in the alcohol business were struck down by a federal court.
Missouri’s first in the country state law prevents
Continue Reading Debate about who can call ‘it’ meat moves to the federal court system
A researcher from a university in the United Kingdom is heading to the United States to speak at a conference on plant-based and clean meat.
Chris Bryant works at the University of Bath and his
Continue Reading UK-based researcher on tap to discuss consumer perceptions of lab meat
