US President Donald Trump has signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025, part of which includes expanding access to plant-based milk alternatives, into law.

The European Parliament has postponed further negotiations regarding the proposed ban on meat-like words, such as ‘burger’ and ‘steak,’ for labelling plant-based products.

Priscillia Moulin, co-founder and director of strategy at MosaiX and senior advisor at Earthqualizer Foundation and Inovasi Digital, explains why maintaining continuous compliance will be the critical challenge for companies who are preparing for the EUDR deadline.

The EU’s new Bioeconomy Strategy sets out plans to support fermentation-based food innovation, as the Netherlands becomes the first EU country to permit public tastings of fermentation-made novel foods.

Beyond Meat been ordered to pay fellow alt-meat company Vegadelphia Foods $38.9 million in damages, after a federal court jury found it liable for trademark infringement.

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority has issued a warning to several companies, asking them to remove the word ‘mince’ in the labelling of their plant-based products.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have today (8 October 2025) voted to restrict the labelling of plant-based products with meaty words such as ‘burger’ and ‘sausage’.

Enifer has obtained self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status in the US for its mycoprotein ingredient Pekilo.

India has reduced the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on a range of plant-based food and beverage items, including milk and meat alternative products, as part of a wider reform.