All Novel foods articles
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Promotional FeaturesShoppers are getting less thrifty, so what can brands expect in 2025?
Consumers are becoming less inclined to make special efforts to curb their grocery spending, a new study of 1,000 UK consumers finds.
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NewsTurmeric Co disputes FSA’s ashwagandha novel food query
The outcome could set a ‘significant precedent’ for food and drink companies using ashwagandha in products
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Category ReportCBD trends 2024: Can CBD finally take off?
The FSA’s positive safety assessment is a welcome boost to CBD. Will shelves soon be flooded with legally compliant products?
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NewsLab-grown steaks and cricket salads could replace Sunday roasts by 2054, Co-op predicts
Cricket salads, English olives and Surrey-grown avocados – experts predict what our meals will look like in 30 years
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Analysis & FeaturesEight great British food tech startups and scaleups about to change the world
The UK is home to a raft of innovative startups vying to create the next global game-changer in food technology
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Comment & OpinionWhy small-time kelp is making UK food and drink gains
New AI data shows the use of seaweed in NPD food and drink launches is on the up
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NewsYeast-made palm oil biotech company secures £2.5m funding boost
Its go-to-market product is an equivalent to high oleic palm oil, with an equivalent nutritional and fatty acid composition
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Analysis & FeaturesHow the functional shroom is ready to boom
Energy-boosting mushroom drinks are taking off among the US wellness crowd as an alternative to or supplement in coffee. Will the use of these adaptogens catch on here?
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NewsFSA urges fast-track approval for lab-grown meat and insect products
Under the proposals, the FSA plans to use the approval of regulators in other countries as grounds to let products come to the market
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Comment & OpinionGross? How bureaucracy is creeping into the UK’s edible insect opportunity
Finally, eating insects is trendy again. Or was it ever?
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Comment & OpinionFSA causes confusion with its new CBD guidance… again
The maximum daily dosage has suddenly and unexpectedly been reduced from 70mg to just 10mg
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NewsNew demands for legal clarity on CBD sales
The #SaveOurCBD campaign warned further delays to regulation would cause “an existential threat” to producers
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Analysis & FeaturesHow the FSA's novel foods rule could shake up the road to bug burgers
The FSA has mooted a number of new ideas in its regime review
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NewsGovernment mulls fast-track for lab-grown meat approval
It comes amid fears that existing restrictions on so-called novel foods are holding back firms from investing in solutions to the environmental and hunger crisis
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Comment & OpinionEurope must speed up the route to market for novel food technologies
Food innovations are crucial to feeding a growing population in a healthy and sustainable manner, says Sue Garfitt, CEO of The Protein Brewery
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NewsChill Brands raises £2.6m to develop CBD vapes
International CBD group Chill Brands said the money would also fund a marketing drive for its e-commerce site
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NewsMola and Pause add CBD soft drinks under novel foods exemption
It comes as thousands of CBD novel food applications are set to be validated by the FSA
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Analysis & FeaturesShould the FSA standardise the safe daily CBD dosage?
The Food Standards Agency seems unlikely to recommend specific dosage levels
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NewsFSA set to validate thousands of CBD products
Groups responsible for half of the CBD public list confirm an update is imminent
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Comment & OpinionFrom lab-grown meat to insects, alternative proteins are the future of our diets
Alternative proteins face regulatory hurdles but applications are already in progress around the world, say Katrina Anderson, associate director and Sian Edmonds, senior associate at Osborne Clarke