The Vireo Advisors blog brings you the latest news and developments in safe, sustainable and bio-based materials and products including novel foods and sustainable nanomaterials.
New Scientific Report Spotlights Effective Alternatives to Animal Toxicological Studies for the Safety Assessment of Cultivated Foods
As the cellular agriculture field advances, unreliable approaches to risk assessment—particularly whole-food animal feeding studies—are ripe for replacement.
Lessons Learned from the Graphene Flagship Project
A new paper, Safety Assessment of Graphene-Based Materials, published in Small by Fadeel et al. reviews the key results of toxicological and ecotoxicological studies on graphene and 2D materials conducted over a decade by the Graphene Flagship project (2013-2023).
EPA Budget Proposals: Potential Impacts on ORD and TSCA in 2026
Three different funding levels have been proposed for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for fiscal year (FY) 2026.
Vireo, GFI APAC, and FRESH Publish “Development of a Safety-Assessed Media Ingredient (SAMI)Framework for Streamlined Safety Assessment of Cultivated Meat and Seafood Product”
Vireo Advisors, LLC, in collaboration with the Good Food Institute Asia Pacific, and Future Ready Food Safety Hub (FRESH) have developed a safety assessment framework for culture media components, including a preliminary list of those commonly used in cultivated meat and seafood production, a proposed categorization, and safety-assessed use levels.
