Quotes from Tech.eu, January 26, 2024
The committee will assess applications from businesses to perform tastings of meat and seafood grown from cells in regulated settings.
The Dutch Government declared today an autonomous Expert Committee to review tastings of meat produced from cells, and it is a major leap forward for bringing cell-cultivated meat and seafood to consumers.
The committee, composed of a toxicologist, microbiologist, doctor and an ethical specialist, will review applications from businesses to perform tastings of meat and seafood produced from cells in regulated settings in the Netherlands, a major advancement for allowing tastings in Europe.
Meatable has filed its application and hopes to arrange its first tasting shortly.
The Dutch government established a ‘code of practice’ to enable tastings of meat and seafood grown from cells in regulated settings, after cell-cultivated meat businesses Meatable and Mosa Meat and industry representative HollandBIO effectively persuaded them last year.
The Netherlands is the first nation in the European Union to allow tastings of food cultivated directly from animal cells in controlled environments, prior to obtaining an EU novel food approval.
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