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The novel food regulatory process risks being too slow, creating significant uncertainties, and too cumbersome, resulting in producers seeking approval elsewhere. It can even achieve all these important goals without taking away consumer choice or reducing the quality of diets and enjoyment associated with meat consumption. Each episode’s oily voyage of discovery builds up to auction day, as 300 people jostle for position in Thornton le Dale’s packed Village Hall.

If it is felt there is a risk that simply recognising overseas approvals results in companies opting to seek approval in other jurisdictions, thereby making the UK a rule-taker and limiting the ability for the UK to set global standards or achieve a first-mover advantage, that concern might be handled by seeking mutual recognition agreements with similar jurisdictions. Responding to food, environment and health challenges by changing meat consumption behaviours in consumers. That was until the next big economic crisis, the Great Recession of 2007-’09: “We were just retailing classics, but then there was a really difficult period. Companies are also developing other cultivated products, including steak, chicken, pork, lamb, duck, fish, shrimp, foie gras, kangaroo, mouse and horse – as well as cultivated dairy products including milk and cheese, though this paper will primarily focus on meat-related applications. Belgium-based Peace of Meat, in comments given to the Food Navigator news site, has similarly stated that the novel foods process is ‘far too rigid and too slow’ and has spoken positively about Singapore’s approach (Southey 2021).The underlying regulatory process could be improved to be more welcoming of cultivated meat and other new food technologies. The UK government has announced the intention to diverge from the EU’s precautionary approach with respect to gene editing (Eustice 2021). The technology, however, could be held back by overregulation in the European Union and the United Kingdom. In 2020, Singapore became the first country in the world to approve a cultivated meat product for sale to consumers, a chicken nugget from San Francisco-based start-up Eat Just.

These products would likely require approval under separate regulations for GMOs, an issue outside the scope of this paper.Most clearly, cultivated meat would free up a significant amount of land for other uses such as rewilding, thereby increasing biodiversity, and housing, which could lower the cost of living and boost productivity. uk/news-alerts/news/a-third-of-uk-consumers-are-willing-to-try-lab-grown-meat-and-a-quarter-would-try-insects).

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compares the EU’s novel food process to the Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) equivalent in the United States, which can, in some circumstances, simply be affirmed by an independent panel and a peer-reviewed study with limited need for consultations with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and can take months rather than years. Comment: Ex-Library Copy **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. Starting in 2018, there has now been eight series of the hit Yesterday Channel show, with more series confirmed!To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Nevertheless, it does appear there are lessons to be learnt both from Singapore and from how other products are regulated. We have so much very good technology in Europe that we could be up there with anybody, but if they don’t gear up in a different way then we will lose out and lose out big time’ (Neslen, 2020b). It could even attract many companies to come to market first in the UK, benefiting British consumers and creating a global hive of activity.