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Czech company releases cultured meat for pet food

Czech start-up Bene Meat Technologies has released the first samples of its cultured meat for pet food, and is currently looking for an industry partner who will allow the product to appear on shelves in a number of markets by the end of this year.

BeneMeat: Italy’s cultivated-meat ban ‘discriminatory’

PRAGUE — Bene Meat Technologies (BMT) recently penned an open letter to the European commission on cell-cultured meat bans in Italy. In November 2023, the Italian Chamber of Deputies voted to pass a law that bans the marketing and production of cell-cultured (cultivated) meat in the country. The ban also applies to foodstuffs and feed and […]

Might pet food provide better prospects for lab-grown meat?

There are signs cultivated-meat firms may have found a new target, one that would allow them to get their product to market more quickly. he noise surrounding cultivated or lab-grown meat is increasing all the time but the level of activity involving the end product is not yet justifying the hype. Hurdles, including the high cost […]

Czech company earns EU registration for cultivated pet food

Czech startup Bene Meat Technologies has obtained a registration certificate from the European Union’s (EU) European Feed Materials Register, enabling the company to produce and sell cultured meat for pet food. The business is now planning to open a new production facility next year to increase its output capacity.

Updated: Bene Meat registers cultured meat for use in pet food

PRAGUE — Bio-technology startup BeneMeat cultured meat has been registered with the European Feed Materials Register, allowing the company to produce and sell its cultured meat products to the European pet food industry. According to BMT, this makes it the only entity throughout the globe that can produce and sell its product for pet food […]