GourmeyThe EU’s food watchdog EFSA has updated its guidelines for novel food applications including cell-based and fermented foods to streamline approval times and clarify that food safety is its highest priority when recommending novel food products for market authorisation.
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Romain BuissonNot the German InFamily Foods subsidiary The Cultivated B, but Gourmey SAS, founded in Paris in 2019 by Antoine Davydoff, Nicolas Morin-Forest and Victor Sayous, has submitted the first EU authorisation application for a cell-based meat product, a duck liver pâté (Foie gras), to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
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.
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.