Our latest surveillance roundup for novel and sustainable foods: safety testing, new product development and regulatory news: Alternative proteins, cultured meat, precision-fermented foods, and new regulations about food packaging and food contact materials.

How can the world rise to the task of providing healthy and nutritious diets to feed more and more people, in a way that also improves the sustainability of food systems?

In the early part of the last century, Sir Winston Churchill made a prediction: “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium”.

This guidance covers novel foods, food contact materials, food and feed additives, and pesticides and addresses new developments since the previous publication of guidance in 2011.