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.

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 New Harvest/Vireo Advisors safety collaboration took a first look at identifying and characterizing cell ag safety research needs independent of regulatory considerations that will benefit the entire sector with methods and data needed to demonstrate safety.

Intended to satirically examine the increasing demand for meat products around the world, as well as to focus on environmental responsibility in the clean-meat industry, the installation has created a debated regarding bioethics.

A genetically modified yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae with lactate dehydrogenase from Rhizopus oryzae, was named "Generally Recognized As Safe” (GRAS) by the FDA Office of Food Additive Safety on January 16, 2019, for use as a processing aid in beer manufacturing.