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. 

The framework was informed by and prioritized with cultivated meat industry stakeholder input, and with input from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) among others. A framework for categorizing media ingredients by safety is proposed, outlining a process to broaden the types of components assessed. The output includes a Safety-Assessed Media Ingredient (SAMI) list of 56 media components, with proposed SAMI use levels. The goal is for the SAMI framework to be a resource for developing a harmonized international approach to safety assessments of media components in cultivated meat production, aimed to clarify when a media component is considered ‘food safe’. The SAMI framework assists risk assessors in government, academia, and industry, providing a resource adaptable across jurisdictions. While the proposed levels facilitate the screening of safe culture media ingredient levels, they are not intended as strict limits. Future efforts are refining the assessment methodology to expand the SAMI list to include more complex components in cultivated meat and seafood.

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