Jan 24, 2017 06:38 PM
As lab-grown meat and milk inch closer to U.S. market, industry wonders who will regulate?
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/l...l-regulate
EXCERPT: The first hamburger cooked with labmade meat didn’t get rave reviews for taste. But the test tube burger, rolled out to the press in 2013, has helped put a spotlight on the question of how the U.S. government will regulate the emerging field of cellular agriculture, which uses biotechnology instead of animals to make products such as meat, milk, and egg whites. So far, none of these synthetic foods has reached the marketplace. But a handful of startup companies in the United States and elsewhere are trying to scale up production. In the San Francisco Bay area in California, entrepreneurs at Memphis Meats hope to have their cell-cultured meatballs, hot dogs, and sausages on store shelves in about 5 years, and those at Perfect Day are targeting the end of 2017 to distribute cow-free dairy products. It’s not clear, however, which government agencies would oversee this potential new food supply....
Why Cellular Agriculture Is The Next Revolution In Food
https://foodtechconnect.com/2016/04/11/c...n-in-food/
EXCERPT: At New Harvest, we’re kickstarting the post-animal bioeconomy – an industry of animal products made without animals, including meat, milk, eggs and gelatin – by supporting cellular agriculture as an established area of academic research. Like the agricultural and industrial revolutions before it, cellular agriculture is the next revolution in food. The post-animal bioeconomy offers a solution to many of the immense problems associated with the food system as it exists today. Our increasing hunger for cheap animal products is having significant impacts on the environment, climate change, water use, antibiotic resistance, and food safety. Cellular agriculture has the potential to offer the exact same animal-derived foods created in a way that bypasses each of these negative effects. As an application of medical science (tissue engineering to be exact) to food production, cellular agriculture is a proven technology that at this point in time requires further research in order to be implemented on a large commercial scale....
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/l...l-regulate
EXCERPT: The first hamburger cooked with labmade meat didn’t get rave reviews for taste. But the test tube burger, rolled out to the press in 2013, has helped put a spotlight on the question of how the U.S. government will regulate the emerging field of cellular agriculture, which uses biotechnology instead of animals to make products such as meat, milk, and egg whites. So far, none of these synthetic foods has reached the marketplace. But a handful of startup companies in the United States and elsewhere are trying to scale up production. In the San Francisco Bay area in California, entrepreneurs at Memphis Meats hope to have their cell-cultured meatballs, hot dogs, and sausages on store shelves in about 5 years, and those at Perfect Day are targeting the end of 2017 to distribute cow-free dairy products. It’s not clear, however, which government agencies would oversee this potential new food supply....
Why Cellular Agriculture Is The Next Revolution In Food
https://foodtechconnect.com/2016/04/11/c...n-in-food/
EXCERPT: At New Harvest, we’re kickstarting the post-animal bioeconomy – an industry of animal products made without animals, including meat, milk, eggs and gelatin – by supporting cellular agriculture as an established area of academic research. Like the agricultural and industrial revolutions before it, cellular agriculture is the next revolution in food. The post-animal bioeconomy offers a solution to many of the immense problems associated with the food system as it exists today. Our increasing hunger for cheap animal products is having significant impacts on the environment, climate change, water use, antibiotic resistance, and food safety. Cellular agriculture has the potential to offer the exact same animal-derived foods created in a way that bypasses each of these negative effects. As an application of medical science (tissue engineering to be exact) to food production, cellular agriculture is a proven technology that at this point in time requires further research in order to be implemented on a large commercial scale....