Netherlands Provides Europe’s First Cultivated Meat Sausage Awaiting Official Regulatory Approval

The following report is by Forbes (excerpts):

It is not news that cultivated meat isn’t yet approved in Europe, yet we are here at the Dutch food tech company Meatable in the city of Leiden, munching tiny bits of sausage produced in their lab in a few meters away.

For the first time on European Union soil, a first pre-approval cultured meat tasting takes place in the EU country where scientists have pioneered the frontiers of biotech since the early 2010s, waiting for this moment for a long time.

Krijn de Nood, founder and CEO of Meatable says, however, this should be remembered as ‘an ordinary day, eating an ordinary pork sausage’, warning us this experience might be underwhelming: this is just regular meat, made in a lab.

The hybrid sausage we taste contains 28% cultivated pork fat, while the rest of the ingredients are plant-based: it is tender as we sample them just after they’ve sizzled in the pan in the office’s kitchen.