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December 12, 2022 - Agtech, FDA, Regulatory, United States
FDA Final Food Traceability Rule: Overview and Key Takeaways from FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act Webinar
Food Traceability Final Rule Overview On November 21, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially published its Final Rule: Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods (“Final Rule”) in the Federal Register. The Final Rule establishes additional traceability recordkeeping requirements for
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December 09, 2022 - Agtech, Financing, Startup
Financing Options in the Alternative Protein Industry
By: Simon Arlington and Michelle Si-Ting Luo
This article is Part B of the fifth alert in our series of alerts focussed on the alternative protein industry. While Part A provided an overview of financing options in the industry, this Part B considers a variety of key financing options in more
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December 05, 2022 - Agtech, Regulatory, United States, Intellectual Property
USDA’s PVP System Embraces Transgenic and Gene Edited Plants
By: Liz Freeman Rosenzweig Ph.D., Christopher D Lew, Abby C. Burrus Ph.D. and Michael Ward Ph.D.
This is an excerpt from a longer piece. For more information on the history and landscape of PVPs on transgenic plants, read more. Plant Variety Protection (PVP) is a form of intellectual property protection administered through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for
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November 22, 2022 - FDA, Agtech, Regulatory
FDA Clears the Path to Lab-Grown Meat
By: Simon Arlington, Brigid DeCoursey Bondoc and Owen Grayson Hosseinzadeh
Owen Grayson Hosseinzadeh, Law Clerk in San Diego, contributed to the drafting of this post. On November 16, 2022, FDA announced the completion of the first ever pre-market consultation process for a human food made from cultured animal cells, UPSIDE Food’s cell-cultured chicken. This
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November 11, 2022 - Agtech, Intellectual Property, Startup, Corporate + Venture Capital
Top Three IP Issues for AgTech Startups
By: Matthew A. Ferry and Edith A. Pierre-Jerome Ph.D.
Innovation, agriculture, and technology took center stage at San Diego’s first AgTech Hackathon. The event took place October 21 – 23 in the city of Escondido, a key farming hub in San Diego County looking to attract agtech startups to the region. The event
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October 28, 2022 - Intellectual Property, Agtech, Regulatory
Germany: Ministry of Health Grants First Glimpse on the Upcoming Cannabis Legalization and Seeks Green Light from the European Commission
By: Robert Grohmann
MoFo research assistant Tim Stripling contributed to this article. In November 2021, in its coalition agreement, the newly elected German Federal Government announced its plans to legalize cannabis for recreational use. Since then, it has been hotly debated by the cannabis industry in Germany
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October 21, 2022 - Agtech, Financing, Startup
Financing Options for an Early Stage Company in the Alternative Protein Industry
By: Simon Arlington and Michelle Si-Ting Luo
Having a clear picture of financing options is key for early-stage companies and will be relevant to players in the alternative protein industry generally, given the significant amounts of investment that the industry has seen in recent years (a record US $5bn was invested
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September 13, 2022 - Agtech, United Kingdom, Regulatory
Key Considerations for Early-Stage Companies in the Alternative Protein Industry
By: Simon Arlington and Michelle Si-Ting Luo
Companies in the UK are regulated by many statutes, ranging from those dictating how much tax they need to pay, to those centred on how they treat their employees. At a corporate level, the main statute that companies should be familiar with is the
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September 12, 2022 - Agtech, Regulatory, United States, Intellectual Property
Purple Tomato Is First Genetically Engineered Plant to Be Deregulated Through USDA’s New Regulatory Status Review Process
By: Liz Freeman Rosenzweig Ph.D.
On September 7, 2022, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) announced the completion of the first Regulatory Status Review (RSR) of a genetically engineered plant under the SECURE rule. APHIS concluded that a new genetically engineered tomato
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August 26, 2022 - Agtech
Partnering with the Alternative Protein Sector
By: Michael Ward Ph.D.
Originally published on the Future Food-tech Alternative Proteins website. Morrison Foerster recent participated in the Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins Summit, where investors, brands, and start-ups met to unlock new partnership opportunities and showcase innovation across plant-based, cell-based, and microbial fermentation. Ahead of the summit,
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Topic Archives: Agtech

FDA Final Food Traceability Rule: Overview and Key Takeaways from FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act Webinar

Financing Options in the Alternative Protein Industry

By: Simon Arlington and Michelle Si-Ting Luo

USDA’s PVP System Embraces Transgenic and Gene Edited Plants

By: Liz Freeman Rosenzweig Ph.D., Christopher D Lew, Abby C. Burrus Ph.D. and Michael Ward Ph.D.

FDA Clears the Path to Lab-Grown Meat

By: Simon Arlington, Brigid DeCoursey Bondoc and Owen Grayson Hosseinzadeh

Top Three IP Issues for AgTech Startups

By: Matthew A. Ferry and Edith A. Pierre-Jerome Ph.D.

Germany: Ministry of Health Grants First Glimpse on the Upcoming Cannabis Legalization and Seeks Green Light from the European Commission

By: Robert Grohmann

Financing Options for an Early Stage Company in the Alternative Protein Industry

By: Simon Arlington and Michelle Si-Ting Luo

Key Considerations for Early-Stage Companies in the Alternative Protein Industry

By: Simon Arlington and Michelle Si-Ting Luo

Purple Tomato Is First Genetically Engineered Plant to Be Deregulated Through USDA’s New Regulatory Status Review Process

By: Liz Freeman Rosenzweig Ph.D.

Partnering with the Alternative Protein Sector

By: Michael Ward Ph.D.