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Rhoden signs five-year ban on sale of cell-cultured meat Aberdeen Insider
Rhoden signs five-year ban on sale of cell-cultured meat Aberdeen Insider
Fermentation dominates UK food tech pipeline as cultivated meat lags Food Ingredients First
Fermentation dominates UK food tech pipeline as cultivated meat lags Food Ingredients First
The Good Food Institute's annual report reveals cultivated meat funding plummeted to just $74 million in 2025, a 96% decline from its 2021 peak of $1.4 billion, reflecting investor skepticism about cost and scale.
‘Lab-Grown’? ‘Cell-Cultured’? New Research Shows the Best Way to Describe Cultivated Meat Green Queen Media
‘Lab-Grown’? ‘Cell-Cultured’? New Research Shows the Best Way to Describe Cultivated Meat Green Queen Media
The UK Food Standards Agency publishes its first set of safety guidance documents for companies developing cell-cultivated food products, including data requirements for regulatory submissions.
AgweekTV Full Show: Cell-cultured meat ban veto, farm finance advice, ASGA president, NDSU Little I Agweek
AgweekTV Full Show: Cell-cultured meat ban veto, farm finance advice, ASGA president, NDSU Little I Agweek
Debate grows as South Dakota eyes cell-cultured meat ban Brownfield Ag News
Debate grows as South Dakota eyes cell-cultured meat ban Brownfield Ag News
South Korea publishes comprehensive draft regulatory guidelines for cultivated meat, positioning the country as the next major market for cellular agriculture.
University College London researchers publish a breakthrough showing that common brewing yeast can serve as an affordable, edible scaffold for growing cultivated meat, potentially reducing production costs by 90%.
Japanese cellular agriculture company IntegriCulture announces plans to file for Singapore Food Agency approval for its cultivated duck meat product, leveraging its CulNet System bioreactor platform.
Tufts University and Good Food Institute rescue cultivated meat lines for open industry use New Food magazine
Tufts University and Good Food Institute rescue cultivated meat lines for open industry use New Food magazine
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 2026 calls on countries to clarify regulatory systems for cultivated meat and precision-fermented ingredients.
From media to scaffolding: How plant-based materials are reshaping cultivated meat FoodNavigator-USA.com
From media to scaffolding: How plant-based materials are reshaping cultivated meat FoodNavigator-USA.com
Market research firm Grand View Research projects the global cultivated meat market will reach approximately $330 million in 2026, driven by regulatory approvals in key markets.
The Good Food Institute reports total alternative protein investment surpassing $881 million in 2025, with cultivated meat securing $52M in Europe alone.
Construction completed on China’s largest cell-cultured meat plant Dao Insights
Construction completed on China’s largest cell-cultured meat plant Dao Insights
Mosa Meat secures a €15 million funding extension from its existing investor base, building on a successful €1.5M crowdfunding campaign earlier in 2025.
Dutch cultivated meat company Meatable enters liquidation after failing to secure continued funding, despite achieving a 4-day cell-to-meat production cycle. The company had acquired Uncommon Bio earlier in 2025.
Lab-Grown Meat Startup Believer Meats Shuts After USDA Approval & Lawsuit Green Queen Media
Lab-Grown Meat Startup Believer Meats Shuts After USDA Approval & Lawsuit Green Queen Media
Believer Meats, formerly Future Meat Technologies, has shuttered operations just months after receiving FDA and USDA approvals, citing inability to reach cost targets.
San Diego-based BlueNalu closes an $11 million bridge round to sustain operations and continue development of its cultivated yellowtail and mahi-mahi products.
UK-based Hoxton Farms files a regulatory submission with the Singapore Food Agency for its cultivated animal fat ingredient, designed as a B2B component for plant-based meat manufacturers.
Factory producing cell-cultured chicken about to start production in North Carolina Food Safety News
Factory producing cell-cultured chicken about to start production in North Carolina Food Safety News
Fork & Good has acquired cultivated exotic meat startup Orbillion Bio, combining technologies to accelerate path to commercial production.
GFI and Tufts University accelerate progress with new open-access cultivated meat cell lines and culture media formulations that can save researchers time and money.
GFI and Tufts University accelerate progress with new open-access cultivated meat cell lines and culture media formulations that can save researchers time and money.
GFI buys assets of defunct cultivated meat firm Feedstuffs
GFI buys cultivated meat firm’s assets for public use Global Food Industry News
GFI buys cultivated meat firm’s assets for public use Global Food Industry News
GFI buys assets of defunct cultivated meat firm Feedstuffs
The US Department of Agriculture awards $10 million in research grants aimed at advancing cultivated meat safety, scalability, and public understanding through its National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Establishment of chicken muscle and adipogenic cell cultures for cultivated meat production Frontiers
Establishment of chicken muscle and adipogenic cell cultures for cultivated meat production Frontiers
Israeli cultivated meat leader Aleph Farms files for regulatory approval in Thailand as part of its Asia-Pacific expansion strategy, backed by a new $29M funding round.
Upside Foods announces expansion of its cultivated chicken availability to additional high-end restaurants across California.
Texas sued over cell-cultured meat ban that went into effect on September 1 Food Safety News
Texas sued over cell-cultured meat ban that went into effect on September 1 Food Safety News
Lab-grown meat makers sue Texas over ban on cultivated protein Food Dive
Lab-grown meat makers sue Texas over ban on cultivated protein Food Dive
Texas officially bans the manufacture, processing, distribution, and sale of cell-cultivated protein products, effective September 2025.
Mission Barns completed the dual FDA/USDA approval process for its cultivated pork fat ingredient, designed for use in hybrid plant-based products.
Three additional US states — Mississippi, Montana, and Nebraska — enact laws prohibiting the sale of cultivated meat products, bringing the total number of restrictive US states to six.
French startup Gourmey announces achieving production costs below $100 per kilogram for its cultivated foie gras, a major cost parity milestone.
EFSA's novel food review has the cell-cultured industry waiting in a 'trough of disillusionment' Food Safety News
EFSA's novel food review has the cell-cultured industry waiting in a 'trough of disillusionment' Food Safety News
Fifth cultivated meat company gains FDA approval National Hog Farmer
Fifth cultivated meat company gains FDA approval National Hog Farmer
Believer Meats Earns FDA Approval & Completes World's Largest Factory for Cultivated Meat Green Queen Media
Believer Meats Earns FDA Approval & Completes World's Largest Factory for Cultivated Meat Green Queen Media
Lab-grown meat labels: USDA finalizing rules on cell-cultivated meat amid protests Genetic Literacy Project
Lab-grown meat labels: USDA finalizing rules on cell-cultivated meat amid protests Genetic Literacy Project
Chinese cultivated pork startup CellX finalizes its pilot production line in Shanghai, targeting the world's largest pork market.
Indiana enacts a temporary ban on cultivated protein from July 2025 to June 2027, after which strict labeling requirements will replace the ban.
CRISPR-based cultivated beef startup SciFi Foods ceases operations after being unable to raise additional capital, adding to a growing list of cultivated meat casualties in 2025.
Texas Becomes Seventh State to Ban Lab-Grown Meat Quality Assurance & Food Safety
Texas Becomes Seventh State to Ban Lab-Grown Meat Quality Assurance & Food Safety
Texas Becomes Seventh State to Ban Cultivated Meat Food Safety Magazine
Texas Becomes Seventh State to Ban Cultivated Meat Food Safety Magazine
Food Standards Australia New Zealand grants approval for Vow to sell cultivated quail meat in Australia, following its earlier Singapore launch.
Israeli cultivated meat company Aleph Farms secures $29 million in new funding to accelerate commercial production of its Petit Steak and BioFarm facility operations.
Australian cultivated meat company Vow achieves a major production milestone, producing over 538 kilograms of cultivated Japanese quail in one harvest run.
Wildtype Food became the third company to receive FDA safety clearance for cultivated meat, this time for cell-cultured salmon — the first non-poultry species to be cleared.
Dutch startup Meatable demonstrates producing cultivated pork in just four days using its proprietary opti-ox technology, a significant speed breakthrough.
GFI: There are ‘no silver bullets to fill funding gaps in cultivated meat’ AgFunderNews
GFI: There are ‘no silver bullets to fill funding gaps in cultivated meat’ AgFunderNews
Lab-Grown Meat Bans in 2025: Which States Are Restricting Cultivated Meat? Duane Morris Government Strategies
Lab-Grown Meat Bans in 2025: Which States Are Restricting Cultivated Meat? Duane Morris Government Strategies
The USDA finalizes proposed rules requiring cultivated meat products to use the term "cell-cultivated" on labels, aiming for consumer clarity.
Cell-cultured meat gains traction with regulatory wins and scaleups FoodNavigator-USA.com
Cell-cultured meat gains traction with regulatory wins and scaleups FoodNavigator-USA.com
Australia Approves First Cell-Based Meat Product Food Safety Magazine
Australia Approves First Cell-Based Meat Product Food Safety Magazine
The Landscape of Cell-Cultured Meat is Shifting Euromonitor
The Landscape of Cell-Cultured Meat is Shifting Euromonitor
The UK Food Standards Agency unveils a sandbox program to help cultivated meat companies navigate the regulatory approval process for human consumption.
Dutch cultivated meat pioneer Mosa Meat reports an 88-fold reduction in growth media costs since the original 2013 cultured burger, bringing per-unit costs closer to viability.
Investment in European cultivated meat companies fell sharply to $52M in 2024, though the broader alternative protein sector remained relatively stable.
Italy becomes the first EU member state to ban the production and sale of cultivated meat, with penalties up to €60,000 for violations. The law was passed amid lobbying from traditional farming interests.
This week, the Good Food Institute released its quarterly alt-protein investment update, so I thought it’d be a good time to check in and see which way things are trending. […]
This week, the Good Food Institute released its quarterly alt-protein investment update, so I thought it’d be a good time to check in and see which way things are trending. […]
Aleph Farms begins commercial sales of its Petit Steak cultivated beef product in Israel following landmark regulatory approval in January 2024.
Over the past few years, companies in food tech product development have begun to utilize machine learning and other AI techniques to accelerate the development of their products. One of […]
Over the past few years, companies in food tech product development have begun to utilize machine learning and other AI techniques to accelerate the development of their products. One of […]
Daphna Heffetz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wanda Fish, a cellular agriculture company aimed at producing cell-based fish meat, starting with bluefin tuna. We talked about making cell-based fish […]
Daphna Heffetz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wanda Fish, a cellular agriculture company aimed at producing cell-based fish meat, starting with bluefin tuna. We talked about making cell-based fish […]
It’s been an eventful few days for cultivated meat. After getting the final regulatory green light from the USDA to serve cultivated meat to U.S. consumers, UPSIDE Food’s cultivated chicken […]
It’s been an eventful few days for cultivated meat. After getting the final regulatory green light from the USDA to serve cultivated meat to U.S. consumers, UPSIDE Food’s cultivated chicken […]
Today marks a big day for cultivated meat as two companies, UPSIDE Foods and Good Meat, announced today that they had received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) […]
Today marks a big day for cultivated meat as two companies, UPSIDE Foods and Good Meat, announced today that they had received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) […]
Cultivated meat company UPSIDE Foods announced today it had secured label approval from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its cultivated chicken product, according to a release sent […]
Cultivated meat company UPSIDE Foods announced today it had secured label approval from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its cultivated chicken product, according to a release sent […]
Lab-grown meat is all grown up. This week Brazilian meat processing conglomerate JBS announced they had broken ground in Spain on its first commercial-scale cultivated meat production facility. According to […]
Lab-grown meat is all grown up. This week Brazilian meat processing conglomerate JBS announced they had broken ground in Spain on its first commercial-scale cultivated meat production facility. According to […]
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how misinformation has real potential to harm the nascent cultivated meat industry. As it turns out, meat grown in bioreactors is not the […]
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how misinformation has real potential to harm the nascent cultivated meat industry. As it turns out, meat grown in bioreactors is not the […]
Last week, GFI published their annual state of the industry reports for the three major alt-protein technology ‘pillars’, plant-based meat, fermentation, and cultivated meat (and teased a fourth one). Like […]
Last week, GFI published their annual state of the industry reports for the three major alt-protein technology ‘pillars’, plant-based meat, fermentation, and cultivated meat (and teased a fourth one). Like […]
Over the past few years, the Good Food Institute (GFI) has created dedicated reports for each category, or “pillar,” in the alternative protein market: plant-based, precision fermentation, and cultivated meat/seafood. […]
Over the past few years, the Good Food Institute (GFI) has created dedicated reports for each category, or “pillar,” in the alternative protein market: plant-based, precision fermentation, and cultivated meat/seafood. […]
This week, a group of Japanese academic and corporate partners announced the creation of the Consortium for Future Innovation by Cultured Meat, a new group that aims to promote “concrete […]
This week, a group of Japanese academic and corporate partners announced the creation of the Consortium for Future Innovation by Cultured Meat, a new group that aims to promote “concrete […]
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced plans to start developing Japan’s cellular agriculture industry with the aim of producing cultivated meat and fish, according to a story published today by […]
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced plans to start developing Japan’s cellular agriculture industry with the aim of producing cultivated meat and fish, according to a story published today by […]
This week’s guest for Food Tech Friday is long-time food tech entrepreneur and investor Peter Bodenheimer. Peter talks about his role at cultivated meat startup Steakholder Foods and what he’s […]
This week’s guest for Food Tech Friday is long-time food tech entrepreneur and investor Peter Bodenheimer. Peter talks about his role at cultivated meat startup Steakholder Foods and what he’s […]