German-Portuguese biotech start-up MicroHarvest GmbH and a Munich-based pet food manufacturer want to launch the first dog snack made by single cell protein.
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Danish CDMO 21st.BIO A/S has unveiled a new pilot plant facility to accelerate scaling of biotech processes ranging from food and beverages, agriculture, biomaterials, and biopharma.
The French Republicans have tabled a bill in the National Assembly aimed at banning the commercialisation of cell-based meat in France.
Finnish protein maker Solar Foods has closed an oversubscribed €8M Series B financing and will expand Solein protein production and support the construction of a commercial production plant.
The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag has announced to channel €38m in funding into the sustainable protein transition next year.
German precision fermentation specialist MicroHarvest GmbH has launched a single-cell protein pilot plant in Lison with an initial capacity of 25kg per day.
The Cultivated B ist the first company in the world to apply for EU-Novel-Food authorisation of a hotdog made from plant protein and cultivated muscle cells.
Conventional meat production contributes to 15% of the global greenhouse gas emissions, high energy consumption and land use change. Belgian Paleo NV produces alternative protein from myoglobins of different species.
It is just announced that it will soon be possible to taste farmed meat and seafood in the Netherlands under controlled conditions. The Dutch government, in collaboration with cultured meat producers Meatable and Mosa Meat, and industry representative HollandBIO, has successfully developed a ‘code of practice’ that will allow tastings in controlled environments.
A UK Biobank analysis of data from 200,000 people over more than ten years,
carried out by British researchers, have linked consumption of ultra-processed foods to an
increased risk of developing and dying from cancer. However, according to the authors from
Imperial College London it doesnt provide a causal relationship.