Australian Startup Secures Permit to Sell Lab-Grown Meat in Singapore

Australian startup Vow has received the green light from the Singaporean government for the sale of its parfait, a cultured lab-grown meat made from Japanese quail. Vow is the third startup to receive a permit in Singapore to sell cultured meat, following Upside Foods and Good Meat, both of which created lab-grown meat from chicken and whose products are only available in select partner stores. Meanwhile, to be launched under the Forged brand, Vow’s product is expected to be the only cultivated meat available to the public globally when it launches at Singapore’s Mandala Club on April 12. However, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is still evaluating Vow’s application and request to amend the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code to allow the use of cultured quail cells made with embryonic fibroblasts from Japanese quail as a “novel food ingredient” in products to be marketed and sold in the region....