Japan Releases Draft Safety Checkpoints for Cultivated Meat and Seafood Products
Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) has released draft guidelines outlining the safety requirements that manufacturers of cultivated meat and seafood must meet before bringing products to market, presented at a May 28 meeting of the Food Sanitation Standards Council’s Subcommittee on Novel Foods. The document covers four areas: cell properties and characterization, manufacturing and quality management, the safety of cultivation inputs, and overall product assessment. Cell sourcing and contamination Producers …