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The European Commission says Italy breached EU scrutiny by passing its ban on cell-based meat before the Commission assessed it.

A new EU-funded think-tank, FEASTS (Fostering European Cellular Agriculture for Sustainable Transition Solution), launched last week.

Agriculture ministers discussed a note that contains a series of false claims about cell-based meat and called for a regulatory overhaul.

NGO ProVeg International has stated that the EU is "primed to become a new Silicon Valley” for cell-based meat companies.

The EU has announced that it will invest €50 million in 2024 to help start-ups scale up precision fermentation technologies.

The European Space Agency has released an update on the potential for cultivating meat in space, stating that the research looks promising.

TCB is in talks with the EFSA and has officially entered the pre-submission process for novel food approval of a cell-based sausage product.

Aleph Farms has applied for regulatory approval from the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO) to sell its cell-based beef.