The UK has been very successful to date in adopting a framework to underpin the emerging alternative meat market, says Animal Alternative Technologies following the publication of a report on the sector titled ‘How well is Europe playing the cultured meat game?’.
With cultured meat being declared safe to eat by the US government, the starting pistol has been fired for the lab-grown meat market. The stage is now set for a rapid expansion of the production of meat using animal cells grown in the laboratory, with the European market expected to be worth $818million by 2026 – admittedly far behind China and North America, with $14.8billion and $4.4billion in expected market size by 2026 respectively.
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