Innovative Food Guidance Hub
Updated 30 June 2026
Applies to England, Northern Ireland and Wales
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Welcome to the FSA Innovative Food Guidance Hub, your central resource for everything you need to know about novel foods and emerging technologies that require market authorisation.
Within this hub, you’ll find tailored guidance, up-to-date information, and practical support on a range of innovative food categories, including cell-cultivated products, precision fermentation, edible insects, cannabidiol (CBD) and genetic technology.
You’ll also learn how to navigate the application process with the FSA to bring these products to market confidently and compliantly.
General guidance
- Regulated products application guidance
- Novel foods application guidance
- GM and novel foods consumer guidance
- Food Standards Scotland regulated products guidance
- Food Standards Scotland novel foods guidance
- Novel foods taste trials guidance
- How to use the novel foods authorisation process flowchart
- Placing innovative foods on the market in Great Britain
Cell-cultivated products
- Cell-cultivated products business guidance
- Cell-cultivated products Business Support Service
- Cell-cultivated products consumer webpage
- Food Standards Scotland cell-cultivated products webpage
- A Rapid Evidence Review on Consumer Responses to Cell-Cultivated Products
Cannabidiol (CBD)
- CBD business guidance
- CBD consumer guidance
- Food Standards Scotland CBD guidance
- Register of CBD products linked to novel food applications
- CBD products linked to novel food applications
Genetic modification
- Genetically modified organisms authorisation guidance
- Genetically modified food consumer guidance
- Food Standards Scotland genetically modified food guidance
Edible insects
Precision fermentation
- Precision fermentation
- FAQ: precision fermentation market authorisation in Great Britain
- Precision fermentation Business Support Service
- A Rapid Evidence Review on Consumer Responses to Precision Fermentation
- Review of Precision Fermentation Applications to Identify Common Challenges for Safety Assessment
- UK safety guidance on precision fermentation products
- Technical production methods of precision fermented foods: identification and characterisation of hazards
- Supplementary guidance for novel foods produced by precision or biomass fermentation
Precision breeding
- Precision breeding consumer guidance
- Precision breeding application guidance
- Precision breeding technical guidance
- FAQ for precision breeding application guidance
- Precision breeding business support service