A Different Kind of Animal: Food Safety Risks and the Path Forward to the Regulation of Cell-Cultured and Plant-Based Meat

Cell-cultured and plant-based meats challenge not just conventionally held ideas about what constitutes “meat,” but conventional ideas about food production and how alt protein foods ought to be regulated. What are the food safety risks of a plant-based burger factory? What should an inspection of a cell-cultured meat lab look like? And who should be responsible for regulating them? In this session, leaders from government and industry discuss food safety risks that regulators should be aware of and share novel approaches to how these redefining foods should be regulated.

Moderator

• Charlie Kalish, Customer Success Manager, Association of Food and Drug Officials

Speakers

• Justin Kolbeck, Co-Founder & CEO, Wildtype Foods
• Aaron Pleitner, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Impossible Foods