{"id":4957,"date":"2024-10-08T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/lab-grown-food-may-be-a-step-closer-to-being-approved-in-uk-as-watchdog-to-research-its-safety\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T05:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T05:00:30","slug":"lab-grown-food-may-be-a-step-closer-to-being-approved-in-uk-as-watchdog-to-research-its-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/lab-grown-food-may-be-a-step-closer-to-being-approved-in-uk-as-watchdog-to-research-its-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown food may be a step closer to being approved in UK as watchdog to research its safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lab-grown meat and vegetable products may be getting closer to approval for consumption in the UK as the food safety watchdog will be researching them to ensure they are safe. <\/p>\n<p>Cell-cultivated products (CCPs) are a new type of food made without using traditional farming methods such as rearing livestock or growing plants and grains.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>Their attraction for both consumers and investors lies in their apparent sustainability as they don\u2019t need huge amounts of land, while the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from livestock are also slashed.<\/p>\n<p>With the use of science and technology, cells from plants or animals are grown in a controlled environment to make the new product.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently no CCPs approved for human consumption in the UK.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA), with Food Standards Scotland, won the bid to be awarded \u00a31.6m in funding from the government\u2019s Engineering Biology Sandbox Fund (EBSF) for the two-year programme.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the funding, the FSA said it needed to learn \u201cabout these products and how they\u2019re made, to make sure they\u2019re safe to for consumers to eat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis information will enable us to make well-informed and more timely science and evidence-based recommendations about product safety and address questions that must be answered before any CCPs can enter the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will also allow us to better guide companies on how to make products in a safe way and how to demonstrate this to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Robin May, chief scientific advisor at the FSA, said: \u201cEnsuring consumers can trust the safety of new foods is one of our most crucial responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CCP sandbox programme will enable safe innovation and allow us to keep pace with new technologies being used by the food industry to ultimately provide consumers with a wider choice of safe foods.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lab-grown meat and vegetable products may be getting closer to approval for consumption in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}