Our latest roundup includes regulatory news, company announcements, and notable publications for novel foods, including cultured meat and seafood and ingredients made using new production systems such as precision fermentation.
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Cell survival, proliferation, and function rely on a complex array of nutritional, hormonal, and stromal cues, and companies are looking for animal-free culture and growth media that can provide the correct chemical environments for cultured meat production
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Impactful updates to environmental, health and safety regulations and assessment methods for chemicals, advanced materials and foods headline our latest new roundup.
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Cellular Agriculture Canada has been re-launched as a multi-stakeholder coalition led by New Harvest Canada joined by Vireo Advisors, LLC. The mandate of the group is the directive that Canada can capitalize on the global movement to achieve a net-zero economy by leveraging its strengths in the emerging field of cellular agriculture.
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Jurisdictions around the world are actively reviewing how they authorise novel foods. The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has a unique opportunity to completely rethink their approach after leaving the EU. A new report considers how their Novel Foods Regulatory Framework could be improved. New concepts such as collaborative regulation and conditional authorisation and supervision could significantly improve the regulatory approval process for foods such as cultured meat and seafood.
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Vireo has been working for the past decade to establish safety and support commercialization for microfibrillated cellulose, cellulose nanocrystals and a host of other emerging biomaterials. Our lead scientists are sharing their experience and provide practical guidance in presentations, posters, discussion panels and networking events at the 2023 TAPPI Nanotechnology Conference.
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Our roundup of the latest cultured meat developments includes announcements from Mosa Meats, Meatable, Aleph Farms, Smart MCs, and UPSIDE, plus commercially-relevant research from Tufts, Kobe University, and Enzymit, FDA approval for consumption of gene-edited pigs, regulatory and governmental perspectives on cultured meat safety research priorities from Vireo and New Harvest, and new labelling requirements in Texas.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations World Health Organization (FAO/WHO) has released a significant new report which identifies potential hazards that could be introduced during production of cultured or cell-based foods and considers the sequence of events that would need to take place for harm to occur to consumers – a critical first step in risk assessment for these new foods.
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At Vireo, we keep close surveillance on commercialization and regulatory developments in cultured and alt-protein meat and seafood, and we have rarely seen as much activity as this! Here is our roundup of the latest developments…
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In recent weeks we have seen U.S. Senators call climate change ‘ideology’, but overwhelming evidence reveals climate change as a real business risk – one that can, and must, be managed. At Vireo, we are working to gain market and regulatory acceptance of biobased, recycled, and advanced technologies that lower these risks.
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