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Cosmetics & Bodycare

MSL Pioneers VeganSure: 100% Animal Free Cosmetic Microbiology Testing System

MSL, one of the UK’s leading Cosmetic Testing and Regulatory houses, has developed the first Preservative Efficacy Test performed on non-animal derived culture media. The Vegan Society has commented that, “VeganSure® marks a major advance in the cosmetics and beauty industry, offering manufacturers and brands of vegan products an alternative way of testing for the very first time.”

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Brand Equity Director Gaetan van de Populiere

Interviews

Danone: “We Plan to Triple Worldwide Plant-Based Sales From €1.7 Billion to Around €5 Billion by 2025”

Danone, one of the world’s leading suppliers of dairy products, recently announced that it intends to triple its sales of plant-based products by 2025. Last month, the CEO of Danone SA, predicted that the next decade will see consumers consistently moving away from animal proteins and towards plant-based products.

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Society

James Cameron and Peter Jackson Set up Plant-Based Food Business in New Zealand

In an interview with TVNZ, famous Hollywood director and vegan advocate James Cameron recently announced that he and Kiwi director Peter Jackson are launching into the vegan protein business. together with their partners Suzy Amis Cameron and Dame Fran Walsh, they founded “PBT New Zealand”, a company aiming to create plant-based meat alternatives and other vegan protein products.

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Food & Beverage

Costco Adds So Delicious in Bulk Packaging Throughout Eastern Canada

Costco Canada recently launched So Delicious vegan ice cream in bulk packages of two across Eastern Canada. As announced by Narcity, a Canadian online media company based out of Toronto, the cashew-based ice cream, Salted Caramel Cluster offers a blend of cashews, chocolate, and salted caramel and is now available. 

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Products & Launches

Dunkin’ Is the First US Restaurant to Introduce Beyond Meat’s Beyond Breakfast Sausage Sandwich

Dunkin’, (was Dunkin Donuts), the nationwide chain and America’s self-proclaimed “market leader for coffee and baked goods”, announced a new partnership with Beyond Meat to introduce the plant-based Beyond Sausage Breakfast Sandwich at participating stores in Manhattan.

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Bernd Eßer, Berief

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Interviews

Berief: “Plant-Based Nutrition has Made a Place for Itself at the Heart of Society”

Berief is a German producer of high quality, organic soy and vegetable products with variations of plant meats and sausages, sandwich spreads, soyghurts, and drinks. For more than 30 years only the best organic quality has been selected; cultivated and harvested in Germany and the adjacent European neighbouring countries.

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