About Us

The Cultured Meat Safety Initiative (CMSI) is a joint initiative led by New Harvest and Vireo Advisors since 2020 aiming to address critical technical, methodological, and informational challenges related to evaluating the safety of cultured meat and seafood products.

CMSI convenes diverse stakeholders, including industry, governmental scientists, regulators, and academic researchers to gain varied perspectives and conduct collaborative public research.

All research conducted by CMSI aims to develop public data and methods to build the necessary support elements for the emerging ecosystem. This can raise regulatory and consumer confidence, support industry efforts toward commercialization, and improve the efficacy of evaluation processes of regulatory safety reviews.

  • Global Non-Profit organization founded in 2006

  • Focused on building the field of cellular agriculture following the principles of responsible innovation

  • Facilitates collaborative, open research

  • Facilitates mission-driven field alignment to strategically advance cellular agriculture, including cultured meat and seafood

  • Scientific and Regulatory Advisory firm, established in 2013

  • Based in the US and Canada

  • Vireo Advisors works internationally with partners to bring better and safer technologies to the market

  • Help companies address environmental, health and safety requirements

  • Build and work with consortia to gain market and regulatory acceptance of novel technologies

  • Guide the development and governance of cellular agriculture

Partners

  • Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (amii)

  • Defined Bioscience, Inc

  • Multus

  • Extracellular

  • Aberystwyth University

  • Good Food Institute Asia Pacific

  • Nanyang Technological University

  • Future Ready 

  • Tufts University

  • Wildtype

  • UC Davis

  • Clever Carnivore

  • Imperial College / Bezos Centre

  • Perkins Coie

  • Future of Protein Product x Cultured Meat Symposium

Funders

  • Food Systems Innovations

  • UKRI

  • Multus Media

  • Nanyang Technical University

  • GFI Asia Pacific

  • US National Science Foundation (Grant No. 2417703)

  • US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (AFRI project 2024-07959)

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy.