Quotes from Vegconomist, February 23, 2024
The ministry in charge of food and drug safety in South Korea has declared that it has started an application procedure for the clearance of meat grown from cells after setting up cultivated food rules and a structure to give companies guidance.
The announcement followed the KFDA’s update and release of the “Provisional Rules and Criteria for Food Products,” specifying the process for authorizing raw materials “produced by technology,” such as cell and microbial cultures.
The revision of the Enforcement Regulations of the Food Sanitation Act in May of the previous year made cultivated food ingredients qualified for certification as food ingredients. Before that, they were only permitted for R&D objectives. But under these provisional rules, cultivated food ingredients could be cleared for sale for the first time.
Sam Lawrence, GFI Asia Policy Vice President, told Cultivated X: “This week’s declaration of a concrete route to market for meat companies grown from cells is a positive acknowledgment of the crucial role that future foods will have as South Korea strives to establish a more safe and eco-friendly protein source.”
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