From lab to fork
Science on the Menu: A Food Safety Podcast by EFSA
European Food Safety Authority
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Ever wondered what a lab-grown steak tastes like? Or how to grow one? Listen in to find out! From cultivated chicken nuggets to cell-based beef burgers, food derived from cell culture has been making headlines around the world. We look at the motivations behind it, the challenges that producers face and whether it could ever become an alternative to traditional meat. Our expert Wolfgang Gelbmann explains how we will assess the safety and the process for gaining approval in the EU. Grab a snack and join us for this latest episode of Science on the Menu.
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| 0:00.0 | Science on the Menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Science on the Menu. |
| 0:23.6 | My name is Ed Bray and I work in the communications team at EFSA and today joining me is Wolfgang |
| 0:29.7 | Gelpman from the Novel Foods team at EFSA. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi Wolfgang. |
| 0:34.8 | Hello, thanks for inviting me. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm really interested to talk about what we're going to discuss today. |
| 0:41.3 | We're talking about food, but not food as we know it. |
| 0:43.3 | We're talking about food that is produced in a novel way, and that is from cell lines. |
| 0:49.3 | So cell-based food, some call it lab-grown food. |
| 0:53.3 | At EFSA, we prefer the term cell culture-derived food. |
| 0:57.8 | When we hear about this, we often hear about it in terms of meat, a replacement for traditional |
| 1:03.3 | meat. |
| 1:04.0 | So let's start off with the most basic question. |
| 1:06.4 | What is cell-based food? |
| 1:09.7 | How is it produced? |
| 1:13.2 | And where does it, what's the process actually for that? |
| 1:18.0 | Yes. |
| 1:18.5 | When we talk about cell culture derived food, we understand these are foods based on cells that have an animal origin. |
| 1:28.7 | So somewhere they must be sourced from an animal. |
| 1:31.5 | Usually they are from found animals or you can also source meat. |
| 1:36.1 | Necessarily you do not need to slaughter an animal for this. |
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