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Food & Beverage Asia December 2020/January 2021

Food & Beverage Asia (FBA) is the leading source of food and beverage news in Asia since 2002. FBA delivers a comprehensive view of the food and beverage landscape, spanning across the latest health and nutrition trends and industry innovations in ingredients, recipe formulations, food science, sustainability, packaging, and automation, as well as advancements in agri and food-tech.

Food & Beverage Asia (FBA) is the leading source of food and beverage news in Asia since 2002. FBA delivers a comprehensive view of the food and beverage landscape, spanning across the latest health and nutrition trends and industry innovations in ingredients, recipe formulations, food science, sustainability, packaging, and automation, as well as advancements in agri and food-tech.

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BITING ISSUES 13<br />

Eat Just granted ‘world’s first’ regulatory approval for cultural meat<br />

Eat Just’s cultured chicken has been (SFA), Singapore’s regulatory authority<br />

approved for sale in Singapore as an entrusted with ensuring a safe food supply.<br />

ingredient in chicken bites. The San During this process, Eat Just complied with<br />

Francisco-headquartered company has SFA’s food safety requirements for the<br />

developed other cultured chicken formats assessment of novel foods.<br />

that will be an extension to this product<br />

line.<br />

Concurrent to the consultation and review<br />

period, Eat Just formed partnerships with<br />

The approval marks the “world’s first” local manufacturers in Singapore to produce<br />

regulatory allowance of meat created cultured chicken cells and formulate the<br />

directly from animal cells for safe human finished product ahead of its sale to a<br />

consumption, paving the way for a<br />

restaurant and, ultimately, initial availability<br />

forthcoming small-scale commercial to consumers. The company has been<br />

launch in Singapore of Eat Just’s new Good impressed with the calibre of local partners<br />

Meat brand. The regulatory achievement helping to make Good Meat a strategic reality,<br />

involved an iterative and extensive safety and further positioning Singapore as the<br />

review by the Singapore <strong>Food</strong> Agency <strong>Asia</strong>-Pacific region’s hub for food innovation.<br />

Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat<br />

Just, commented: “Singapore has long<br />

been a leader in innovation of all kinds,<br />

from information technology to biologics<br />

to now leading the world in building a<br />

healthier, safer food system. I’m sure that<br />

our regulatory approval for cultured meat<br />

will be the first of many in Singapore and<br />

in countries around the globe.<br />

“Working in partnership with the broader<br />

agriculture sector and forward-thinking<br />

policymakers, companies like our can help<br />

mee the increased demand for animal<br />

protein as our population climbs to 9.7<br />

billion by 2050.” ■<br />

Eat Just<br />

FOOD & BEVERAGE ASIA DECEMBER <strong>2020</strong> / JANUARY <strong>2021</strong>

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