Alla frontiera della produzione alimentare: la carne c.d. coltivata nell’Unione europea fra divieti e mancanza di pareri scientifici, in Forum di Quaderni Costituzionali

The agrifood sector increasingly relies on technological innovations that could represent important allies in the urgent transition to more sustainable food systems. However, innovations such as Novel Foods pose regulatory issues and criticalities that must be addressed by national and supranational legislators and policymakers. The present paper aims at analyzing these issues through the exam of a paradigmatic case study: the discipline of the so-called cultured meat. By examining the recent Italian law prohibiting the production and marketing of cultured meat, the paper will also study the EU legislation on Novel Foods as well as the interesting example of the Singapore’s regulation. The debate that will emerge from this study imposes to seriously pay attention to the regulatory challenges concerning innovative food products, with the final purpose to ensure, at the same time, sustainability, environmental protection and food safety.