image credits @FAO In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in developing food products from animal cells cultivated in a tank, with around 100 companies in approximately a dozen countries now producing them. However, as this latest area of #protein_innovation intensifies, the issue of nomenclature has come to the fore, raising questions about what we should call these foods and how the terminology plays into ensuring food safety. Before we can even begin to discuss food safety, we need to agree on what to call these new products. There is a range of names currently in use, including "artificial," "lab-grown," "fake," or "clean" meat. Some of these terms carry value judgments, while others such as "cultured" or "cultivated" could create potential confusion with existing products such as farmed fish or seafood. Additionally, several of the terms need to be used as qualifiers before the word "meat," which ...