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Last news (more)
- The Future of Meat: Hybrid – Sep 09
- Regulatory approvals, scale next hurdles for cell-based meat category
- What Is Cell Cultured Meat and When Can You Try It?
- Israeli cultured meat company aims to redefine industry
- Aleph Farms completes $105 million Series B round
- From No Meat to Clean Meat | Healthy Eating
- Growing Sushi in San Francisco – Food Tech Digest
- The Science Behind Grilling the Perfect Steak
- France falls behind as other countries master ‘cultured meat’
- Future Meat opens world’s first cultured meat facility
- New €32m fund for plant-based and meat alternatives research
- Cultivated meat: Out of the lab, into the frying pan
- West Sacramento alternative meat company opens new fermentation plant
- The hunt for the master cow that will feed the world
- Animal-free heme production for artificial meat in Corynebacterium glutamicum via systems metabolic and membrane engineering
- Peril & Promise: Climate change is changing how we view food
Compagnies and key players (more)
- Israeli cultured meat company aims to redefine industryIsraeli cultured meat foodtech company SuperMeat has been piloting a farm-to-fork restaurant that serves a chicken menu based on meat cultivated on-site […]
- Aleph Farms completes $105 million Series B roundAleph Farms, an Israeli cultivated meat company that grows steaks directly from non-genetically modified animal cells, has announced the completion of a […]
- Growing Sushi in San Francisco – Food Tech DigestSan Francisco based company Wildtype specialises in agriculture technology. More specifically, they’re working with cell-based agriculture to grow salmon for human consumption. […]
- Future Meat opens world’s first cultured meat facilityIsraeli food-tech company Future Meat Technologies, which has developed innovative technology to produce cultured meat, has announced that it has opened the […]
- West Sacramento alternative meat company opens new fermentation plantThe Better Meat Co. hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week to open its new multi-million dollar fermentation plant that will produce the […]
- Karana: Creating Asia’s first whole-plant based alternative meat brandKarana is the Singapore food start-up positioning itself as Asia’s first whole-plant-based meat brand. Its flagship product — a pulled pork substitute […]
- Cultured Decadence Raises $1.6M in Pre-Seed FundingCultured Decadence, a Madison, Wis.-based cellular agriculture company, closed its $1.6M pre-seed financing. Backers included Bluestein Ventures, Joyance Partners, Revolution’s Rise of […]
- Mosa Meat Achieves an ‘Over 65x Reduction’ in Costs for Its Cultured FatDutch cultured protein company Mosa Meat said over the weekend it has reduced the cost of its fat media by 66 times […]
Events (more)
- The Future of Meat: Hybrid – Sep 09
- 3rd Industrializing Cell-Based Meats & Seafood Digital Summit 2021 – August 10-12 2021
- New Food Invest – online – 18 March 2021
- webinar : Producing meat without the animal
- Webinar The Science of Alt. Protein: Developing optimized media for cultivated meat production with Dr. David Block
Laws, ethics and lobbies (more)
- Regulatory approvals, scale next hurdles for cell-based meat category The question is no longer if the technologies used to develop products are viable, but how they will be regulated? In addition […]
- Cultivated meat is gaining momentum—and pathways for regulatory approvalAs cultivated meat moves closer to—and enters—markets globally, various countries are using existing novel food regulations or developing new ones to assess […]
- When will lab-grown meat reach the European market?As cultivated meat and fat are novel foods, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) requires they be approved as such. In March […]
- Farmers expect rapid growth for plant-based meats, but don’t like itHalf of the farmers surveyed by Purdue University said plant-based proteins could hold up to 10% of the meat market in five […]
- Can We Enjoy Meat and Seafood and Save the Planet? – EcoWatchThe environmental benefits of cell-cultured meat also mean less environmental destruction. Conventional meat production requires massive amounts of land for grazing and […]
- Chinese Cell-Based Meat Startup Raises US$3M Angel Round To Scale Cultured Minced PorkMainland Chinese cultivated meat startup Joes Future Food has raised 20 million RMB (US$3 million) in an angel investment round. The food […]
- Japan: Regulatory Updates on Shaping the Cultivated Meat MarketThe first move is the government initiative in establishing the Food Tech Research Group. The Food Tech Research Group, including over 100 […]
- Round one goes to Miyoko’s in ‘plant-based butter’ dispute with State of CaliforniaThe dispute began late last year after Miyoko’s was told by the Department of Food & Agriculture to drop the terms ‘butter,’ ‘lactose-free,’ […]
Market (more)
- What Is Cell Cultured Meat and When Can You Try It?Hanni Rützler, an Austrian nutrition scientist, made history in 2013 when she became the first person to taste meat grown in a […]
- Peril & Promise: Climate change is changing how we view foodHost Frank Sesno speaks with Josh Balk, co-founder of Eat Just, which has produced and sells plant-based eggs and now, manufactured chicken. The first restaurant is now serving it […]
- Most People Would At Least Consider Trying Cultured Meat – Food Industry ExecutiveThe study, which surveyed more than 4,000 people in the US and UK, found that 80% of people are either “highly likely” […]
- Europe? The U.S.? Israel? Which Country Might Be Next to Approve Cultured MeatThe question was asked again this week when an article from Food Navigator zeroed in on Europe, noting, “Europeans want to know […]
- Israeli alternative-meat ecosystem on fast track for growthAccording to the report, alt-protein has accelerated faster than any other industry in Israel since 2018, with a 187% CAGR in investments. […]
- An Overview of the Challenges and Innovations of the Current Cellular Aquaculture Industry Cellular aquaculture has much potential as a new way to meet the limitations of wild capture and aquaculture in supplying the global […]
- Investor Interest in Meat Alternative Biotechs BoomsCompanies developing sustainable meat and dairy alternatives smashed records with a €2.6B ($3.1B) haul last year. Why has it been such a […]
- LCA of cultivated meat. Future projections for different scenariosIn this prospective Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of cultivated meat (CM, also sometimes referred to as cell-based meat, clean meat, cultured […]
Research (more)
- The Science Behind Grilling the Perfect SteakSummer has arrived, and it’s time to fire up the backyard grill. Though many of us are trying to eat less beef […]
- Animal-free heme production for artificial meat in Corynebacterium glutamicum via systems metabolic and membrane engineeringRecently, heme has attracted much attention as a main ingredient that mimics meat flavor in artificial meat in the food industry. Here, […]
- Bioethical considerations of cell-cultured meat – PubMedBased on the analysis of the essence of cell cultured meat, we explore the positive significance of cell cultured meat technology for […]
- Lab to Table: Identifying the Genes Responsible For Muscle Tissue Development in CowsWhat distinguishes a muscle cell from a fat cell or a skin cell? The answer is “gene expression.” More precisely, the particular […]
- Chinese Consumers’ Attitudes and Potential Acceptance toward Artificial Meat – PubMedThe interest for artificial meat has recently expanded. However, from the literature, perception of artificial meat in China is not well known. […]
- Bioethical considerations of cell-cultured meat – PubMedFrom the perspective of bioethics, the research, development and production of cell cultured meat can help ensure the sustainable development of human […]
- Decellularized spinach serves as an edible platform for laboratory-grown meatSpinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College […]
- What’s the carbon footprint of lab-grown meat?If a large new production facility runs on renewable energy, the carbon footprint of cultivated meat would be lower than conventional beef, […]
Other alternatives to meat (more)
- Impossible Burgers are coming to US schoolsNow that it has acquired CN Labels for its products, the company is launching K-12 pilot programs this month in partnership with […]
- Revo Foods unveils 3D-printed plant-based salmonAustrian-based Revo Foods announced on Facebook it will host what it believes is the ‘world’s first’ public tasting event for its 3D-printed, […]
- Clara Foods launches animal-free pepsin: ‘We want to accelerate the world’s transition to animal-free proteins’The animal-free pepsin – which will be distributed by Ingredion – has the same functionality as the animal-derived variety, with the added benefits […]
- Tiny Organisms, Huge PotentialBut there is a rising star on the alternative protein scene—a versatile platform that is simultaneously familiar and well established yet completely […]
- Air Protein: Using fermentation to make alternative proteinWhile other well-known meat alternative companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat make plant-based protein from soy and peas, Air Protein is […]
- Center for Food Safety Filed Lawsuit Against FDA Challenging Decision to Approve Genetically Engineered Soy Protein Found in the Impossible BurgerYesterday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its decision to decline […]
- Beyond Meat launches new burgers that are juicier and lower in saturated fatGrocery stores traditionally offer multiple blends of lean meat and fat in beef products, and Beyond Meat says its new burgers are […]
- Beyond Meat Launches Minced Pork Product in ChinaBeyond Meat debuted its new plant-based pork product made specifically for the Chinese market yesterday, according to a report in Green Queen. […]