£320m investment in alt-protein at risk from ‘hostile’ EU takeover, MPs warned

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The Alternative Proteins Association warns that the UK is risking its ‘progressive’ policies on developing lab-grown meat being taken over by an EU framework that is ‘slower, more politically contested, and increasingly hostile to the technologies’

More than £320m invested to give the UK leadership in novel foods is being jeopardised by negotiations for dynamic alignment with the EU, as fears grow investors are starting to withdraw from the sector.

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