Policy & Regulation

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers NotCo's Dubai chocolate, BrewDog's collaboration with Impossible Foods, and new products at Expo West. New products and…
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Spanish AI-powered fermentation startup MOA Foodtech has received €14.8M ($15.4M) from the European Innovation Council to transform agricultural waste into high-value ingredients. Turning waste into functional foods using artificial…
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Magic Valley, a Melbourne-based producer of cultivated meat, has received A$100,000 in government funding to scale up production and drive down costs. Aussie food tech startup Magic Valley has secured A$100,000 ($62,800) from the…
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Donald Trump's pick for Health & Human Services Secretary has been confirmed. From cultivated meat to methane vaccines, how will food tech fare over the next four years? It took a while, but Donald Trump got his man. Robert F…
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In this exclusive op-ed, Daily Harvest CEO Ricky Silver lays out what Robert F Kennedy Jr's confirmation as health secretary means for the US food system, and how we can move forward. In arguably the most polarised moment of our…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat's new products and cookbook, the US's first corn milk brand, and a cultivated seafood tasting. New products…
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The number of Europeans who say they eat sustainably has dropped to 46%, despite calls for the bloc's citizens to cut back on meat and dairy. Over the last year, several countries in Europe have revised their national dietary guidelines…
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After revolutionising vegan cheese, Miyoko Schinner is leveraging her decades-long experience to teach everything plant-based at all nine University of California campuses. Longtime animal rights activist, vegan dairy entrepreneur and…
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Unlike its rivals, Canada's agrifood tech sector is built on public investment, which leaves a "venture capital gap" – and Trump tariffs threaten to further complicate things. Plant proteins, functional foods, and food waste solutions…
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The UK is no longer at risk of falling behind other countries in the protein transition, thanks to a collective outlay of £75M in future food innovation. But more can be done in the upcoming food strategy. As the Labour government…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Eleven Madison Park's new vegan hot honey and Kite Hill's post-Veganuary dairy-free campaign. New products and launches …
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US biotech manufacturing company Liberation Labs has raised another $50.5M as part of its funding efforts to build a large-scale facility for precision-fermented foods. In its newest fundraising round, Indiana-based Liberation Labs has…
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The FDA has proposed new front-of-pack labelling rules for packaged foods, which would highlight saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars – could it be a boon for plant-based meat? Would a "high saturated fat" label deter you from buying…
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Setting VAT rates based on the health and climate impacts of food can reduce diseases and deaths, lower emissions, and boost national economies, according to a University of Oxford study. Meat taxes aren't a new idea, but they're…
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Californian cultivated meat pioneer Upside Foods is aiming to launch chicken shreds – its second product – in the US by year-end. Despite its legal battle against Florida's leaders and an uncertain political landscape around…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers two new dairy-free coffee creamers, Hellmann's social media prank, and Oato's launch of fresh oat milks at Sainsbury's. …
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The French government's proposed labelling ban on plant-based meat products has been cancelled by its top court, echoing a similar decision by its EU counterpart. Veggie burgers are here to stay – yet again. A long-running saga in…
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The US Department of Energy has invested $9.7M in three alternative protein projects to decarbonise the food sector and improve industrial productivity. Microbial proteins, fibre-spun vegan meat, and animal-free lactoferrin all became…
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Dutch-Belgian startup Those Vegan Cowboys is raising €15M for its recombinant casein as it prepares to enter the US this year, and has teamed up with dairy giant Hochland to test animal-free cheeses. To get its cow-free cheese onto…
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With Donald Trump having returned to office, 2025 could be a bumper year for cultivated meat bans in the US – here are the countries that could benefit from these policies. Within a day of returning to the presidency, Donald Trump…
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In Beijing's Fengtai District, the New Protein Food Science and Technology Innovation Base is aiming to fill the gap in China's cultivated meat and microbial protein ecosystem. China has just opened its first alternative protein…
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