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The UK's Food Standards Agency has published its third batch of guidance documents to support cultivated meat companies, this time focused on regulatory approval and growth media. As cultivated meat firms grapple with a new trade deal…
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German plant-based food producer Greenforce has acquired vegan egg startup Neggst, a deal linked to the former's impending takeover by Livekindly Collective. As it navigates the regulatory nod for its integration into US holding company…
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Californian startup Three Trees, known for its clean-label plant-based milks, has been acquired by Brooklyn-based business development and brand platform Next in Natural. Three Trees, a company known for its premium additive-free milk…
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US scientific assessment company SciPinion has launched SciBridge, an AI-enabled toolkit that provides food producers with a method to prove their ingredients' similarity to an FDA-cleared precedent in minutes. With the US Food and Drug…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers The Vegetarian Butcher's burgers in the UK, another yeast protein in India, and fluctuating plant-based milk sales. New…
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France's Biotech Open Platform, established by Danone, Michelin and others with over €20M in initial funding, has opened an advanced fermentation facility to help companies scale up to industrial production. Two years after its…
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A three-year government-backed project led by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland shows that creating value from every sidestream is crucial for plant-based companies to build a profitable business. Achieving profitability in…
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French malt producer Soufflet Malt and food tech platform Eat the Truth have teamed up to use fermentation to turn malt into flavours that can replace cocoa and alcohol, among other ingredients, in food and beverage products. With…
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Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf Foods will close two of its plant-based protein manufacturing sites in the US, centralising production at its facility in Indianapolis instead, citing "declining volumes". Just as it revives one of the…
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SunOpta, which was acquired by Refresco earlier this year, has opened a newly expanded $35M production line for its plant-based milk and creamers in Midlothian, boosting its capacity by 10%. US food producer SunOpta, known for its…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers École Ducasse's plant-forward courses, BuzzFeed Tasty's vegan series, and a plant-based milk class-action settlement. New…
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A judge in Massachusetts has reduced Beyond Meat's financial liability in a trademark lawsuit over a Dunkin' ad, axing $23.4M of the overall $38.9M awarded by a jury last year. Months after a jury found Beyond Meat liable to pay nearly…
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Chinese synbio firm Bestzyme, owned by GenScript Biotech, has installed what it says is the world's first dedicated automated sweet protein production line at its Jinan facility. The rapidly growing sweet protein market has just…
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Spanish agrifood firm Elian has secured €40M ($45.9M) in funding from state-owned fund Cofides to turn Barcelona into a plant-based production hub and boost the EU's food security. Spain's government has made a big bet on plant proteins…
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React Foods has spun out of Aarhus University to commercialise a fermentation technology that turns CO2 and hydrogen into a protein-rich yeast biomass, backed by a loan of 4.2 million kroner ($645,000). The gas protein sector's newest…
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US-based Association for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Innovation and UK company Cultigen Group have teamed up to accelerate progress for the cultivated meat sector. A new cross-Atlantic collaboration aims to help companies boost their…
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UK food producer Heck, best known for its sausages, has launched a range of blended meat products combining 70% animal proteins with 30% vegetables and legumes, months after taking its plant-based chipolatas off the market. The blended…
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German agrifood giant Cremer Group's recently launched FermBase platform has rolled out a new line of trace element blends to simplify yeast fermentation processes. Extending its solutions for the next-gen fermentation industry,…
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Dutch startup Greencovery has raised €1M in funding to scale its cocoa waste upcycling technology. It's now targeting a follow-on financing round of up to €3M. With cocoa prices maintaining their premium, one startup is looking to…
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Swiss startup Planted is growing over four times faster than the entire plant-based meat category in Germany. Its co-founder gets to the meat of the matter. Planted, one of Europe’s leading meat alternative makers, is outperforming the…
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US startup Ayana Bio and Indian specialty chemicals company Zenfold Sustainable Technologies have jointly acquired fermentation equipment from Meati Foods, which recently ceased operations. The fermentation assets of US startup Meati…
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