UK Publishes Its First Safety Guidance for Cultivated Products
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has partnered with Food Standards Scotland (FSS) to publish the country’s first safety guidance for cultivated products. The documents have been produced by the FSA and FSS’s CCP Sandbox Program, which focuses on cultivated foods derived from animal cells. Several pieces of safety guidance are set to be published; of these, two are already available. The first confirms that cultivated products made using animal …
Cultivated & Fermented Foods Could Receive Increased Support Through UK Government’s Industrial Strategy
The UK government has published a new Industrial Strategy that pledges £184 million to boost the country’s engineering biology industry by building and upgrading pilot and scale-up facilities. The pledge has been made under the strategy’s Digital and Technologies Sector Plan, and could benefit producers of cultivated meat, cultivated ingredients, and fermentation-based foods. The plan specifically highlights London-based cultivated meat startup Multus to illustrate how clusters of engineering biology expertise …
UK Government Invests £1.4M to Expand Food Standards Agency’s Precision Fermentation Expertise
The UK government has announced it is investing £1.4 million in a new innovation hub that aims to expand the expertise of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in new technologies such as precision fermentation. Precision fermentation involves the use of microorganisms such as yeast to make ingredients like whey protein without the use of animals. The process has been used for decades to produce ingredients such as rennet for cheesemaking, …