Renaissance BioScience, a global bioengineering company, has received new patent allowances and grants for its non-GMO acrylamide-reducing yeast (ARY) from regulatory authorities in China, Russia, India, Australia and Vietnam. These five new ARY patent grants and allowances join previously issued patents from the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, Chile and Colombia, with patents pending in multiple additional markets.

After a food safety scandal involving spoiled meat at a producer in Shanghai hit headlines last month, the Japanese and Chinese governments have agreed to hold a working-level meeting on food safety, according to Kyodo News of Tokyo.