Posts in Leadership
Climatetech Initiative in Massachusetts

The State of Massachusetts, US, announced a ten-year strategy to support technologies aimed at addressing climate change and promoting environmental sustainability. The sustainable and biobased materials, circular manufacturing, and innovations in sustainable foods that our clients are developing are at the heart of climatetech. We applaud the Healey-Driscoll Administration for their leadership.

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Regulating the Future of Food Conference November 23-24, 2023

Dr. Kimberly Ong, safety and regulatory consultant at Vireo Advisors, LLC, exchanged ideas with researchers and regulators from around the world as they worked together to make regulatory systems more efficient for commercialization of cultivated meat and seafood and precision fermented foods, while still holding a high bar for safety.

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Vireo Advisors, LLC Joins Cellular Agriculture Canada initiative with New Harvest

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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Cultured meat: commercialization and regulatory roundup

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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Climate change is a real business risk that can be managed.

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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FDA to modernize proposed rules defining the identify of foods.

The FDA announced today that they were withdrawing the “Food Standards; General Principles and Food Standards Modernization” rule, proposed in 2005 and were aiming to make FDA definitions and standards of identity for foods consistent with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the standards used by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to inspect meat and poultry products.

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