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.
CMSI Scaffold Working Group Meeting: Planning a Classification Approach for Scaffolds and Survey Result Review
Vireo Advisors, New Harvest, and NC State hosted a hybrid CMSI Scaffold Working Group Meeting to review survey results and plan their publication.
CMSI Publication: Developing an action plan for pre-competitive, collaborative research on cultured meat and seafood safety
The latest The Cultured Meat Safety Initiative (CMSI) publication by Vireo Advisors and New Harvest, Developing an action plan for pre-competitive, collaborative research on cultured meat and seafood safety has been published and is available with open access!
New Paper: Standardising Safety Testing for Cultivated Meat Media
We are pleased to announce a new publication in Foods highlighting work to advance safety assessment approaches for cultivated meat. This work is an output of the Cultured Meat Safety Initiative (CMSI), in collaboration with Ruth Wonfor and partners at Multus, reflecting the importance of cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and safety experts.
Vireo CMSI team in London, UK for CMSI; June 2025 CMSI Summary; Upcoming CMSI events!
The Vireo CMSI team is in London, UK this week for the first ever UK CMSI Workshop during London Climate Action Week - Developing standards for ‘food-safe’ culture media in cultivated meat and seafood applications.
Vireo Advisors co-hosts CMSI Phase 3 working session and attends Future Food-Tech San Francisco!
We were thrilled to host another CMSI Phase 3 working session earlier this month in collaboration with New Harvest! Thank you to all our participants for sharing their insights on addressing cultured meat safety research priorities. We had many fantastic discussions at the working session and are excited for the research collaborations to follow! Huge thanks to Wildtype for the venue, UC Davis iCAMP for hosting the networking session, and NSF/USDA for financial support.