Singapore Clears Its First Cultivated Beef With Aleph Farms Approval
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has approved the sale of Aleph Farms’ cultivated beef, making Singapore the second marketplace to clear the business’s Cultivated Thin-Cut Steak and leaving Aleph as the only producer worldwide holding regulatory approval for cultivated beef.
“Earning approval in Singapore meant meeting one of the most rigorous novel food frameworks in the world”
In any jurisdiction, has been poultry, quail, or seafood, every other cultivated product cleared for disposal to date. Singapore, which in 2020 became the first country to authorize cultivated meat for human consumption, has approved several products since, including Parima’s cultivated chicken and duck.
Aleph’s clearance is the first the agency has granted for beef. The Cultivated Thin-Cut Steak is the first product in Aleph’s Aleph Cuts line and combines cultivated beef cells with a plant protein base. The business received the first regulatory approval for cultivated beef from Israel’s Ministry of Health, which issued a “No Questions” letter following a review that concluded at the end of 2023 and was announced in January 2024.
Singapore as an Asia-Pacific base
The clearance follows Aleph’s January 2026 decision to make Singapore its Asia-Pacific scale-up hub through a contract development and manufacturing agreement with Singapore-based Cell Agritech. The company has described this as an asset-light model, allowing regional production without building capital-intensive facilities of its own.
Singapore imports more than 90 percent of its food and functions as a regional distribution point for beef, factors Aleph cites in positioning the product as a complement to conventional supply rather than a replacement. “Regulatory approval in a second market, and the only one so far for cultivated beef, reflects great teamwork between our regulatory. Development teams, but also the quality of our product and the discipline of our approach,” told reporters Didier Toubia, co-founder and CEO of Aleph Farms.
He continued, “Singapore has built one of the world’s strongest ecosystems for cultivated meat. This clearance allows us to move toward scaling-up our commercialization in Asia on a capital-efficient footing. Food security calls for diversification of animal protein sources. Our aim is to complement conventional beef supply chains, not replace them, and Singapore is a practical place to begin that work in the region.”
Filings pending across five more markets
Founded in 2017, Aleph Farms grows beef from non-modified cow cells and has pulled in $147 million to date.
The firm has filed for approval in additional marketplaces, including Thailand, Switzerland, and the UK, and has signaled plans to pursue clearance in the EU and the UAE. Yifat Gavriel, Chief of Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Product Safety at Aleph Farms, stated, “Earning approval in Singapore meant meeting one of the most rigorous novel food frameworks in the world.
This milestone reflects years of careful work by our regulatory, quality, and science teams to demonstrate the safety of cultivated beef to a second watchdog. It gives us a strong foundation as we pursue approvals in additional marketplaces.”
