As alternatives to meat become increasingly sophisticated and available and a growing population begins to strain the supply of animal products, consumers are raising the bar for animal proteins in terms of appearance, freshness, processing and price...
Mattson: 'The very existence of what's now known as clean meat is at stake here'
The Good Food Institute (GFI) has enlisted the services of food and beverage innovation firm Mattson to conduct further research into the best way to describe cell-cultured meat following the release of new data suggesting that the industry-backed term...
A new player in the burgeoning cell-based meat field that has developed a production process which its founders claim will give it a competitive advantage over rivals, has emerged from stealth mode after raising $3.5m to help scale its slaughter-free...
New survey data from food development specialist Mattson suggests that the #1 thing consumers see as appealing about cell-based meat (grown from animal cells in a culture, without slaughter) is that it could “help reduce the amount of hormones and antibiotics...
San Francisco-based JUST - best-known for its plant-based eggs and mayo - is on track to launch a ‘KFC-style’ ground chicken product made from cell-cultured meat at a restaurant somewhere outside the US this year to test consumer reactions. However, commercial...
The USDA and the FDA will host a joint meeting on October 23-24, 2018 on cell-based meat – meat produced by culturing animal cells outside of an animal – to thrash out how the sector might be regulated and how such products should be described on food...
As the debate over labeling conventions and regulatory frameworks intensifies in the burgeoning cell-cultured meat arena, a group of start-ups seeking to grow meat from cells without slaughtering animals has agreed to form an industry trade association...
At the start of the year, industry experts predicted 2018 would be the year of the plant-based diet, and as we enter the fourth quarter sales and growth data suggest that the prediction is coming to fruition – but does it also mean that the end of animal...
As long as protein products are safe and shoppers are not being misled, it’s not the role of lawmakers to write new labeling laws favoring one production method over another, says the CEO of plant-based meat brand Tofurky, which is challenging a Missouri...
The Good Food Institute, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, and plant-based meat brand Tofurky, have sued the state of Missouri to challenge a law that would prohibit plant-based and clean meat companies from...
Cultured meat (aka ‘clean meat’) is best described as ‘cell-based meat and poultry,’ and both the FDA and the USDA have roles to play in regulating it, argue Memphis Meats and the North American Meat Institute in a letter to President Donald Trump calling...
Clean meat - meat cultured from animal cells grown outside the animal without the need for slaughter – could have a profound impact on the kosher food community and “dramatically lower the cost of kosher meat" in future, says kosher certification...
San Diego-based BlueNalu - which aims to make a splash in the cellular aquaculture field with cell-cultured seafood products – has raised $4.5m in a seed round led by New Crop Capital and joined by a coalition of 25 venture organizations and individuals...
Clean meat technology is progressing rapidly, says Brian Spears, co-founder at cell cultured meat start-up New Age Meats, but perhaps not as quickly as we've been led to believe, as there’s a huge difference between launching at a high-end restaurant...
If you’ve just managed to get your head around the concept of ‘clean meat’ – meat produced by culturing animal cells outside of an animal - Bond Pet Foods is about to push the food industry’s boundaries again with a new approach to meat protein production...
