- Singapore has approved cultured duck and beef, reaffirming its status as the most permissive market, but no cultured meat products are currently being sold on a large scale.
- China aims to develop cultured meat to reduce its imports, but faces high production costs and consumer reluctance.
- Upside Foods has abandoned its plan to acquire the Believer Meats plant in North Carolina, and BeneMeat has suspended its expansion in the United Kingdom due to post-Brexit regulatory uncertainty.
- The Belgian startup Paleo has reduced the production cost of myoglobinâa protein essential to the taste and color of meatâby a factor of 613.
- The European Unionâs food research strategy focuses on fermentation without allocating specific funding for improving taste or reducing costs, leaving these investments to the private sector.
- A report by EIT Food indicates that European consumersâ lack of trust in high-tech foods is the main barrier to their adoption.
- Thailand is preparing regulations for cultured meat by consulting on good manufacturing practice guidelines, while the European Union has now banned the use of meat-related terms for plant-based or cultured products.
- A study shows that cultured fat must be differentiated into fat cells to match conventional pork fat, which increases production costs and time.
- A cocoa butter substitute produced through yeast fermentation achieved taste results identical to the original in four out of five tests.
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