Vireo CMSI team in London, UK for CMSI; June 2025 CMSI Summary; Upcoming CMSI events!
The Vireo CMSI team is in London, UK this week for the first ever UK CMSI Workshop during London Climate Action Week - Developing standards for ‘food-safe’ culture media in cultivated meat and seafood applications. We are fully booked, but there is a waitlist! Hosted by Multus in collaboration with Aberytswyth University, and workshop organizers Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein - Imperial a Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib), Good Food Institute (GFI), New Harvest, Hoxton Farms, Ivy Farm Technologies, Qkine, RSSL and Vireo Advisors, LLC !
Mark your calendar for future CMSI Dates:
October 29, 2025 during the Regulating the Future of Food Conference, RAI Amsterdam, NL (more info here)
February 23, 2026, co-located with The Future of Protein Production, Chicago
We hosted a successful safety workshop with New Harvest in Chicago as part of our Cultured Meat Safety Initiative (CMSI) in June 2025!
Here are some key topics that were discussed throughout the day:
🥩 The use of scaffolds and potential implications for safety testing and regulatory approval.
🔎 The need for public safety research and transparency.
📓 The development of shared resources and frameworks for safety assessment.
Thank you to Perkins Coie for hosting us, and Clever Carnivore for allowing our participants to taste their bratwurst in a controlled setting.
A report from the workshop will come soon. In the meantime, check out our newsletter linked here or more details about our workshop and what’s coming next!