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 […]

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 […]

Czech firm Bene Meat gets EU registration for lab-grown meat for pet food

PRAGUE, Nov 8 (Reuters) – (This Nov. 8 story has been corrected to fix the headline, first bullet point, and story’s reference to ‘registration’, not ‘approval’ or ‘certification’ after the company issued a clarification.) Czech start-up Bene Meat Technologies is the first to win European Union registration for laboratory-grown meat for use in pet food and […]