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.
New Tool For Environmental Health and Safety Evaluations of Cellulose: Fluorescently Labeled Fibrillated Cellulose!
Vireo Advisors is a proud contributor to the newly published “Fluorescently Labeled Cellulose Nanofibers for Environmental Health and Safety Studies”.
Increasing Consumer Confidence in Food Science
There has been wide acceptance of the Impossible Burger, while cell-cultured chicken was approved for sale in Singapore in 2020, the first nation to authorize a cultured meat.
Future Food Tech Virtual Summit 2021
Wow, Future Food Tech – what an event! Probably the most well executed online conference we have attended. It brought together 1200 food leaders from around the world to rethink the food system in a post-Covid 19 world.
Collaborating to advance a safety research agenda for cell-cultured meat and seafood products
Over the past year, we at Vireo Advisors, an expert advisory consultancy focused on the safe and sustainable commercialization of new technologies, worked with New Harvest, a nonprofit focused on advancing cellular agriculture through research, to prepare a landmark manuscript about the safety of cultured meat — co-created with cultured meat companies from around the world.
The ethical way to alter organisms
Kevin Esvelt, one of the inventors of CRISPR-based gene drive, offers advice on how to ethically develop and use these technologies to block the spread of animal-borne diseases, reduce pests without the use of toxins, and provide solutions to conservation problems.