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In addition to approval from the FSA, cultivated meat will also likely interface with other laws and regulations. This effectively reverses the onus of proof, requiring the proposer of a new technology to substantiate that it is safe. Often by the time I’d finished it was the last car in the car park – you’d find that pretty worrying now. A reform agenda, following these principles, would not only benefit the development of cultivated meat but also support other beneficial food innovation. Nevertheless, there is industry acceptance, for example from the Alliance for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Innovation (AMPS Innovation 2021), for a word such as ‘cultivated’ on the product packaging.

That was until the next big economic crisis, the Great Recession of 2007-’09: “We were just retailing classics, but then there was a really difficult period. The DB6 is one of the longest-serving cars in Derek’s collection, and one of five Aston Martins – a marque he considers one of his favourites. in the context of the dairy industry, highlight how the novel food process hampers the competitiveness of smaller businesses due to high fixed costs of seeking approval. His 1926 Singer Nine, bought from an auction vendor after a bidder backed out on the purchase, is a car he enjoys, but is one his sons have no interest in. There are several steps that could be taken to address these concerns and ensure consumers and industry can benefit.find that even the intention to reduce meat consumption does not often translate into behaviour change. The majority of people love the taste of meat, and behaviour change is far more likely to occur when consumers are given greater choice that caters for their needs, not more restrictions. Sitting along from the DB6 and AM Vantage is a DB MkIII, bought in the ’80s from a Reliant Scimitar dealer who’d taken it in part-exchange. If the system is unchanged, companies could be forced to delay applying for regulatory approval until they are confident their processes cannot be substantially improved or, more likely, be using outdated technology by the time they receive regulatory approval. It is perhaps no surprise that the FSA (2019a) found that 50 per cent of British adults are concerned about animal welfare.

Indeed, incumbent meat and dairy producers in the US and Europe have already lobbied to limit the ability of producers of alternative protein products to use common terminology such as ‘milk’, ‘burger,’ ‘steak’, ‘bacon’ or ‘sausage’. Japan: Regulatory updates on shaping the cultivated meat market’, The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific, 28 October 2020 (https://www. Copa Cogeca, ‘Open letter: Vegan imitations must stop hijacking the names of meat products’, Farming Independent, 15 September 2020 (https://www.The trouble is that the weight of the gold has caused their ship, the Stuck Pig, to become - well, stuck! The FCA (2021) works closely with companies to develop appropriate safeguards for each product, provides ‘informal steers’ on regulatory implications of an innovative product or business model and can ‘modify an unduly burdensome rule, for the purpose of the test’. I used to think it was quite odd when people would come into our showroom and not know what era or type of car they were interested in, but I can relate to that more now. Mosa Meat CEO Maarten Bosch warns that ‘it’s obvious, that if this (rule) is applied to the cell-based meat space as well, all approval-related processes would be extremely delayed’ (Wirsching 2020). This could be beneficial for society at large, freeing up agricultural workers and land for other pursuits, akin to the experience over the last few centuries in increasing farming productivity and resulting in millions raising their standard of living from peasants working the land to better jobs in towns and cities.

Ivy Farm reveals aim to be the first British company to put cultured meat on people’s plates’, Oxford University Innovation, 17 May 2021 (https://innovation.Holle (2018: 325) concludes that despite ‘superficial friendliness towards innovation’ of the updated regulation, ‘its true character is conservative and hardly supportive of novelty’. Other British companies are developing products to support the industry, including Multus Media, which is working on growth media, and Unicorn Biotechnologies, which is developing a cultivated-meat manufacturing platform. Singapore’s FSA already asks applicants under its novel food process to submit ‘any safety assessment reports conducted for and/or by overseas food safety authorities, especially in jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, the EU and the United States of America’. It could even attract many companies to come to market first in the UK, benefiting British consumers and creating a global hive of activity.