Where partial regulatory approval may be enough

The process for getting regulatory approval for cultivated meat has been a drawn-out "black box" operation in three countries so far, and the process isn't more transparent in the UK, Switzerland and the EU, among other governments that are weighing the implication of the novel food technology.

Russ Tucker, co-founder of the UK cultivated meat company Ivy Farm Technologies, is a proponent of a meet-me-in-the-middle approach to regulation of the sector that would better…