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The EU has pumped €5.7M into Alganova, a new project that seeks to establish a biorefinery for the production of proteins and functional ingredients from microalgae fed on waste and carbon dioxide. Algae's potential to safeguard the…
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Austrian-American food tech startup BioCraft Pet Nutrition has published a publicly available regulatory dossier for cultivated meat ingredients in pet food, proposing a minimum safety disclosure standard for the industry. To advance…
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Johan Jörgensen is a writer, food systems thinker, founder of Sweden FoodTech, and the author of the new book, Flat Earth Food, from which this excerpt is adapted. There is a field in the American Midwest – you can find its equivalent…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Wicked Kitchen's UK return, Tetra Pak's new bioreactor, and the Green Party's plant-based policy proposal. New products…
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Californian precision fermentation leader The Every Company has partnered with ADM to expand the production of its animal-free egg white protein to the US. Weeks after extending a deal to quadruple the production of its…
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Dutch-Belgian precision fermentation startup Those Vegan Cowboys has established Margaret's Finest, a collaborative discovery programme to explore the potential of animal-free casein proteins. Ahead of the launch of its cow-free casein…
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has published the second tranche of guidance documents for cultivated meat regulation, just as the country pursues an EU trade agreement that could jeopardise approvals. As the UK and the EU navigate a new…
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US alternative fat startup Savor has closed a $32M funding round, with participation from AAK, which has signed a deal to develop dairy alternatives and bakery applications with the former's carbon-derived fats. Californian food tech…
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More than 80 alternative protein startups have experienced M&As, insolvency, or closures over the last two years – and investors and founders don’t expect this consolidation trend to stop. ”I think the next generation of food…
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Dutch contract manufacturer Nizo Food Research has partnered with Winclove Probiotics to discover novel probiotic solutions at a time when gut health is firmly in the nutrition spotlight. With fibremaxxing at full tilt, a Dutch…
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Danish biotech giant Novonesis has signed an exclusive deal to scale up and commercialise TurtleTree’s precision-fermented lactoferrin protein, following investment in the Singaporean startup. Singapore’s TurtleTree has taken a giant…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly's partnership with Dutch Railways, Finless Foods' crowdfunding round, and Gosh!'s Mad About Veg campaign. New…
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Dutch cultivated meat pioneer Mosa Meat has received an €875,000 ($1M) loan from state-owned Invest International to navigate regulatory processes and launch into countries across the globe. Seven months after raising €15M ($17.6M at…
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The Better Meat Co, known for its Rhiza mycoprotein, has changed its name to BMC Ingredients as it expands its ingredient portfolio beyond meat alternatives. In its regulatory dossier submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration, US…
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In its first policy brief, Horizon Europe-backed project Giant Leaps is urging the EU to accelerate the transition to alternative proteins while preserving the nutritional adequacy of diets. The EU is increasingly facing calls for a…
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Quorn's foodservice arm has supplied its mycoprotein to William White Meats for the launch of UltiMeat, a lineup of blended meat products for UK restaurants, caterers, and retailers. As blended meat continues to gain steam across…
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Food tech startup Nutrition From Water has agreed to make an equity investment in Portugal's PhycoFerm, formalising a joint R&D collaboration to accelerate microalgae strain generation. New Zealand-Portuguese startup Nutrition From…
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German engineering company GEA is relocating its Application and Technology Center for future food from Hildesheim to Sarstedt with a €4M ($4.6M) investment. Three years after opening its first novel food scale-up facility, Germany’s…
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Nambawan Spain, a spinoff of Nomad Bioscience, has unveiled Thaûma, a thaumatin sweetener produced via plant molecular farming, which is 13,600 times sweeter than sugar. The food tech industry's deepened focus on sugar reduction has led…
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Future food businesses in the Netherlands are calling on the government to make at least €200M available via an EU funding mechanism to expand alternative protein production. The Netherlands may already be a food tech leader, but a…
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French cultivated meat leader Parima has demonstrated tonne-scale production of its duck at viable cost economics on a 22,000-litre line run by Australia's Vow. As it awaits regulatory approval in Australia, France's Parima has…
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