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Worthington also argues that a first-mover advantage could include setting global standards and allowing domestic producers to build up manufacturing scale and a global brand.

Holle (2018: 325) concludes that despite ‘superficial friendliness towards innovation’ of the updated regulation, ‘its true character is conservative and hardly supportive of novelty’. This would enable consumers to have accelerated access to novel food products while not undermining safety. It is superfluous for the UK to require companies to go through precisely the same regulatory process twice. The most promising alternative is cultivated meat (also referred to as cultured, lab-grown, cell-based, synthetic, animal-free or clean meat).What’s happening in Singapore should have been happening in Europe,’ said Ira van Eelen, who sits on Eat Just’s board and whose father, Dutch scientist Willem van Eelen, patented the technology. The UK government has announced the intention to diverge from the EU’s precautionary approach with respect to gene editing (Eustice 2021). Dutch life sciences lawyer Karin Verzijden (2021) describes Singapore’s requirements for cultivated meat as a ‘modest framework’ as part of a ‘relatively informal and accelerated, yet science-based’ process.

There is also the ongoing need to ensure the product is tasty, mimics the texture of meat, and is safe from contaminants in the production process.Economic impact assessment of the way in which the EU novel foods regulatory approval procedures affect the EU food sector. Upscaling in the race to cultured meat’, European Biotechnology, 11 May 2020 (https://european-biotechnology.