19 October 2026, São Paulo: Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) has issued six resolutions covering to…

In 2024, Solar Foods became the international category winner of the Deep Space Food Challenge run by Nasa and the Canadian Space Agency, recognised for its development of a “food production system through gas fermentation that relies on single-cell protein production”.

19 October 2026, Mendoza Province: Argentina’s Mendoza province began a province-wide aerial and drone insecticide…

At Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU), scientists have come up with a fermentation method that uses oyster mushroom mycelium to transform okara, the pulp left over from the production of soy milk and tofu, into a high-value ingredient rich in protein and umami.

19 October 2026, Peru: Peru’s agricultural health agency has suspended the sale, distribution and use of five pest…

19 October 2026, California: The U.S. Supreme Court on October 13, 2026, granted Monsanto’s petition in Monsanto C…

If the EU won’t do it, we will, says a Dutch think tank.Last year, the European Commission proposed excluding novel foods from the food and feed regulatory sandboxes it introduced under the first Biotech Act. These are controlled environments that let businesses and researchers design standards and guidance for new products with regulators.

19 October 2026, Beijing: China’s exports of phosphate fertilizers have fallen from roughly 5.3 million tonnes in …

A lot can go into developing a new food technology before some fairly basic commercial questions are properly tested. Who would actually use it? What are they doing instead? What would make them change, and what evidence would they need before doing so?