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.

Cultured meat commercialization and regulatory roundup

Our roundup of the latest cultured meat developments includes announcements from Mosa Meats, Meatable, Aleph Farms, Smart MCs, and UPSIDE, plus commercially-relevant research from Tufts, Kobe University, and Enzymit, FDA approval for consumption of gene-edited pigs, regulatory and governmental perspectives on cultured meat safety research priorities from Vireo and New Harvest, and new labelling requirements in Texas.

Read More

Cellular Agriculture - Cultured cell products for human and animal food - An overview of FDA and USDA regulatory oversight

In a joint webinar released on July 24th, 2020, representatives from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Agriculture (USDA) presented the current framework for “Regulatory Oversight of Cultured Animal Cell Human and Animal Food Products”.

Read More