Tag: regulatory

Brief: Regulatory constraints are driving the world’s ‘looming seafood shortage,’ says McKinsey

October 10, 2023

Projections show a 14% growth in seafood demand by 2030 versus 2020 levels.

FAIRR Q&A: Agrifood corporates must ‘play much stronger role’ in advancing alt-protein and tackling supply chain emissions

November 29, 2022

Roughly 94% of agrifood corporates’ total emissions lie in their supply chain; 33% of those are linked to animal agriculture.

A letter from Israel: Ecosystem-defining culture and the positive role of government

November 18, 2022

Israel’s overall culture shows how the country has built its agrifoodtech with collaboration, support and a sense of belonging you may not find elsewhere.

Brief: Upside Foods gets world’s first FDA approval for cultivated meat in the US

November 16, 2022

The letter grants GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status to Upside’s cultivated chicken product, paving the way for a market launch in the US.

Brief: Vow lands $49.2m ahead of its cultivated quail launch in Singapore restaurants

November 14, 2022

PeakBridge and others participated in the Series A round, which Vow says will enable it to bring its cultivated quail to Singapore soon.

“This is not social media, this is not the internet, this is not gaming.” But agtech investors aren’t going anywhere

October 20, 2022

At this year’s AgTech NEXT event in St. Louis, Missouri, panelists discussed the different ways to deal with “a food system in crisis.”

Vow unveils southern hemisphere’s ‘largest’ cultivated meat facility, plans Singapore launch

October 4, 2022

The Factory 1 cultivated meat facility will handle commercial production for Vow’s “extremely delicious” first product it aims to launch this year.

Q&A: LahakX on how drones can make crop scouting ‘truly actionable’ for farmers

September 5, 2022

With its regulatory process now complete, California’s LahakX readies its drone swarming and spot spraying tech for fields in California.

BREAKING: Biologicals startup Puna Bio lands $3.7m to fight climate change with ‘extreme bacteria’

September 1, 2022

Puna Bio will launch its seed treatment that leverages the power of extremophiles — bacteria that can make plants more resilient to extreme conditions.

Brief: Eat Just lands $25m investment from Chinese PE firm to scale alt meats in China

August 17, 2022

Both plant-based and cultivated meats are marked as areas for R&D in China’s Five-Year Plan that sets economic goals for the country.

Brief: UPSIDE Foods bags $400m in cultivated meat’s largest funding to date

April 21, 2022

Pending regulatory approval, the US-based company hopes to bring its cultivated chicken to commercial markets later this year.

Meet the Female Founder: SuperMeat’s Shir Friedman says cultivated meat is ‘definitely scalable’

April 18, 2022

SuperMeat’s co-founder and head of communications talks regulatory approvals, transparency with consumers, and the long-term promise of cultivated meat.

Brief: Xi highlights alt-protein as central to Chinese food security

March 10, 2022

Xi said that China “should shift our focus from farmland only” and use biotechnology to “obtain calories and protein from plants, animals, and microorganisms.”

ADM & InnovaFeed’s insect protein partnership examined

February 8, 2022

The Paris-based startup will supply insect protein to ADM’s pet foods division, to create “high-quality nutritional” products with “a significantly lower carbon footprint and land requirement.”

Brief: Indian government shelves ag reforms after months of mass protests

November 19, 2021

The farm laws “were for the benefit of farmers, but we could not convince a section of them despite our best efforts,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

DSM’s methane-busting cattle feed approved in Brazil, the world’s biggest beef exporter

September 10, 2021

The Dutch company claims that a quarter-teaspoon of Bovaer administered per cow, per day can reduce enteric methane emissions by up to 90%.

Mealworm Beetle Larva (Tenebrio Molitor). Photographed by acclaimed wildlife photographer and writer, Dr. William J. Weber.

Brief: EU greenlights insect-derived protein in pig & poultry feed

September 7, 2021

It’s “an instrumental step in upscaling the European insect sector,” according to industry group IPIFF.

A sole focus on organic farming will not get us where we need to be

June 28, 2021

CRISPR is the best tool the EU has to achieve its ambitious agrifood sustainability goals. The bloc needs to keep that squarely in mind when regulating its use, write Rudi Ariaans and Ferdinand Los.

Brief: EU drops plans to restrict marketing of plant-based dairy alternatives

May 26, 2021

Amendment 171 could have prevented brands from displaying allergen or climate information on packaging – or even from showing images of the product itself.

Impossible Foods Impossible Burger bleeding with heme

Brief: Impossible Foods prevails in US federal court complaint over heme

May 6, 2021

The maker of plant-based ‘bleeding’ burgers said it applauds the court’s decision to “slap down [CFS] – an anti-science, anti-GMO activist group that’s been spreading lies for years.”