Food safety bosses hatch ‘temporary’ deal to safeguard novel foods from EU reset

lab grown meat

A leaked document shows a draft plan that would see novel foods continue under the FSA’s existing regime, while a longer-term solution with Europe becomes part of longer-term detailed negotiations

UK food safety bosses have been negotiating a possible “temporary arrangement” to allow a British boom in novel foods such as lab-grown meat to survive the looming Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) deal with the EU, The Grocer understands.

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