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The South Korean food authorities have highlighted that public health and potential food safety concerns will be its top priorities when developing the upcoming regulations to govern cultivated meat in the country.

The major novel protein technology sectors in APAC covering cultivated meat and precision fermentation now see scaling up and subsequent product affordability as the next important evolutionary milestone for the sector as regulatory pushbacks ease.

Carlsberg Malaysia's Sapporo partnership, world-first liquid shio koji enters region, Sunsweet in Thailand and more feature in this edition of ASEAN Focus.

Here are seven key takesways from GFI APAC's first State of the Industry report, highlighting funding, adoption barriers and blended meat.

Singapores recruitment of talent, billions in investment, top universities, and attraction of venture capital makes it an exciting emerging hub for biotech innovation.

Singapore is working on a Food Safety and Security Bill to offer greater clarity on cultured meat regulation and prevent foodborne illnesses.

In June of this year, the USDA approved the label of “cell-cultivated chicken” to be used for the sale of laboratory grown chicken. It also issued grants of inspection to Upside Foods...

The Netherlands-based food tech company Meatable says it has managed to reduce costs and raise production efficiency of its cultivated meat products, which are on course to be launched in Singapore by next year.

Recent landmark cell-based meat applications in Europe are ‘more good news’ for the region’s food tech, says Meatable.

Huge, hulking, grown-up sums of money have been injected to drive innovation in the plant- and cell-based protein sector, yet it remains very much in its infancy.