Japan invests in cell-farmed meat industry to strengthen sustainable food supply

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Announces Plans to Develop the Country's Meat Industry During a meeting of the House Budget Committee, he announced that Foodtech, including cellular food, is an important technology for achieving a sustainable food supply. The Japanese government will develop an environment for creating a new market, including efforts to ensure safety and establish labeling rules, and will support the food technology business originating in Japan. While Japan's regulatory environment for the sale of cell-cultured meat has been seen by some as having the potential to create a fairly quick glide path compared to other countries, there are still several regulatory hurdles that need to be resolved for such meat to be marketed. Last year Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has set up a team of experts to investigate the safety of farmed meat and the related production process. Almost a year later, the Japanese government is still working to define what ...