Since Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue named Mindy Brashears Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, the former Texas Tech University food safety professor is finding herself in demand.
Perdue named Brashears to the post on Jan. 28 so she could work at USDA while continuing to wait for the U.S.
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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 two -days of public meetings this week in Washington D.C., the government can claim it
Continue Reading Regulatory regime for cell-cultured food is on agenda for 2019
As the world’s population balloons, agriculture and science have converged to create sustainable, innovative solutions to food production. The fruits of this “Ag Tech” evolution includes groundbreaking technology that has fomented the production of “clean meat” via cellular agriculture as a viable alternative to conventional animal agriculture. Given the novelty
Continue Reading Clean meat staking its claim amid regulatory uncertainty
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 taken from animals without slaughtering them.
On Aug. 22, Memphis Meats Inc. in the Bay
Continue Reading Lab-made meat, poultry get big funding boost from big food
“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 on a plate.
Memphis Meats CEO Uma Valeti watches chef Dave
Continue Reading Clean, safe, humane — producers say lab meat is a triple win
