Recently CNN.co.jp reported the following:
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シンガポール、人工培養鶏肉の販売を承認 世界初
2020.12.03 Thu posted at 16:05 JST
ロンドン（ＣＮＮ Ｂｕｓｉｎｅｓｓ） シンガポール食品庁（ＳＦＡ）はこのほど、米サンフランシスコを拠点とする新興企業イート・ジャストに対し、実験室で培養した鶏肉の国内での販売を承認した。培養肉の販売を承認した国は世界で初めて。
イート・ジャストの１日の発表によると、この製品は人工培養した鶏の細胞からつくられたもので、チキンナゲットの原料として承認された。
同社のジョシュ・テトリック最高経営責任者（ＣＥＯ）はＣＮＮ Ｂｕｓｉｎｅｓｓに対し、人工鶏肉を使ったチキンナゲットについて、最初はシンガポールのレストラン１店で導入し、いずれ同国の飲食店や小売店で幅広く提供する予定だと明らかにした。
「我々は何百年、何千年と肉を食べてきたが、これまでは常に食用の動物を殺さねばならなかった」とテトリック氏は指摘している。
同社によると、培養肉は生体反応などを起こすための装置「バイオリアクター」でつくられ、たんぱく質やミネラルを豊富に含むという。
同社はシンガポールとカリフォルニア州北部に製造拠点を構える。今のところシンガポール以外では培養肉の販売の承認を得ていないが、今後は欧米にも販路を拡大していきたい考えだ。
米国ではすでに代替肉や植物由来たんぱく質の人気が高まっており、アジアでもこうした流れが定着しつつある。
今年は新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大で世界経済が混乱した状況にもかかわらず、植物由来たんぱく質を手がける米インポッシブル・フーズが、５億ドル規模の資金を新たに調達した。出資者は主にアジアの有力投資家で占められていた。
Translation
London (CNN Business) The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) had
recently given an approval to a San Francisco-based start-up company Eat Just to
sell laboratory-cultured chicken in Singapore. This was the first country in
the world to approve the sale of cultured meat.
According to an announcement of East Just made on the 1st, the product was made from artificially cultured chicken cells and had been approved as a raw material for making chicken nuggets.
The company's CEO, Josh Tetric, told CNN Businesses to made clear that chicken nuggets made with artificial chicken could initially be introduced at a restaurant in Singapore and might eventually be widely offered at restaurants and retail stores in the same country.
"We've been eating meat for hundreds and thousands of years, until now, we always had to kill edible animals", Tetric pointed out.
According to the company, cultured meat was made with a device called "bioreactor" that caused biological reactions, and it was rich in proteins and minerals.
The company had manufacturing bases in Singapore and
Northern California. So far, they had not obtained approval to sell cultured
meat other than Singapore, but the company would like to expand its sales channels to
Europe and the United States in the future.
Meat substitutes and plant-derived proteins were already gaining popularity in the United States, and this trend was taking root in Asia.
Despite the global economic turmoil caused by the spread of
the new coronavirus, the Impossible Foods, an American plant-derived protein
company, had raised $500 million in new funding this year. The financiers were
mainly leading Asian investors.
So, probably
this new chicken meat could add new strengths to the spread of healthy food
business in Asia.
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