The Netherlands Passes Cultivated Meat and Seafood Agreement
In collaboration with cultivated meat producers Meatable and Mosa Meat and sector representative HollandBIO, the Dutch government created a ‘code of practice’ that would make tastings of cultivated meat and seafood possible in controlled environments.
This historic agreement makes the Netherlands the first country in the European Union to make pre-approval tastings of food grown directly from animal cells possible, even before an EU food approval. It follows on the heels of the government’s ‘National Growth Fund’ committing €60M to build a cellular agriculture ecosystem. The organization created to implement the National Growth Fund plan, Cellular Agriculture Netherlands, will have responsibility for implementing the code of practice, including hiring a panel of experts to evaluate requests by companies to conduct tastings of cultivated meat and seafood.