By Vishal Singh
Cultivated meat and seafood can soon be taste-tested in the Netherlands.
The Dutch government, in collaboration with Mosa Meat, Meatable and sector representative HollandBIO, have developed a ‘code of practice’ that would allow tastings possible in controlled environments.
This deal makes the Netherlands the first nation in the EU to allow pre-approved tastings of food created directly from animal cells even before an EU new food approval.
The agreement comes after the ‘National Growth Fund’ of the government pledged €60M to create a strong ecosystem for cellular agriculture, making the Netherlands a centre for developing the technology.
The ‘code of practice’
The code of practice was created after an intervention by the Dutch House of Representatives in 2022. Cellular Agriculture Netherlands, the company established to carry out the National Growth Fund strategy, will be in charge of putting the code of practice.
Members, Tjeerd de Groot (D66) and Peter Valstar (VVD) introduced a resolution asking the government to speak with Dutch cellular agriculture producers so that pre-approval tastings might be conducted in a controlled environment.
This will include selecting a group of professionals to assess requests from businesses to perform tastings of cultivated meat and seafood.
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