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Vow cultivated quail foie gras

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Vow’s Quail-Based ‘Forged Gras’ Launch Marks First Cultivated Meat Sale in Hong Kong

Australian cultivated meat company Vow has unveiled Forged Gras, a cultivated alternative to the luxury delicacy foie gras. Derived from Japanese quail cells, Forged Gras is now available in Hong Kong, marking the first commercial sale of cultivated meat in the region. The launch solidifies Vow’s status as the first company to sell multiple cultivated meat products across multiple markets, following the debut of its Forged Parfait in Singapore earlier this year. Unlike traditional foie gras, which has faced widespread bans due to ethical and environmental concerns, Forged Gras offers a reimagined version of the dish. Created without animal slaughter, the product mimics the fatty liver’s rich texture while introducing a subtle, gamey flavor profile unique to quail. George Peppou, Vow’s CEO, explained the company’s …

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Meatable Celebrates Recognition on TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024 List

Dutch cultivated meat company Meatable has announced its inclusion on TIME’s prestigious Best Inventions of 2024 list. Meatable has been recognized for its opti-ox™ technology, which allows cultivated meat to be produced from a single sample of cells in a matter of days. The technology works by accelerating the cell differentiation process, allowing muscle and fat cells to be created much more efficiently than with other cell cultivation methods. This approach lowers not just the speed but also the cost of cultivated meat production. Additionally, it minimizes resource use, avoiding the environmental impact and months-long rearing process associated with conventional meat. According to Meatable, the opti-ox™ technology is a key part of the company’s strategy to position itself as “an asset-light, affordable, high-quality cultivated meat …

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Singapore Tasting of Cultivated Chicken Marks Milestone in Vital Meat’s Path to Approval

Vital Meat, a cultivated meat startup based in Nantes, France, held the first tasting event for its flagship ingredient, Vital Chicken, in Singapore last week in partnership with Hue Restaurant. The exclusive tasting gathered 30 people, including investors, industry players, Singapore officials, French community representatives, and cultivated meat industry leaders, according to the announcement. Chef Jun Hao, a renowned chef blending traditional Thai flavors with modern twists, designed dishes to showcase the versatility of Vital Meat’s chicken in everyday recipes. Guests were treated to a three-course menu combining traditional Singaporean flavors: chicken skin chips, “offering a delightful crunch;” a delicate Vital Chicken broth paired with handmade ravioli infused with traditional local spices; and chicken rice, a flavorful Singaporean classic. Tastings, a crucial step before approval The …

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Bene Meat Technologies, a Czech cultivated meat company that made headlines this year by introducing a cultivated pet food product at Interzoo, announces a prototype for human consumption: cultivated meat burgers.

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Bene Meat Technologies Introduces its First Food Prototype: Cultivated Beef Burgers

Bene Meat Technologies, a Czech cultivated meat company that made headlines this year by introducing a cultivated pet food product at Interzoo, announces it has developed cultivated beef burgers. The company explains that the team prepared 100% beef cell burgers — that closely mimic the appearance, aroma, and texture of conventional ground beef — after successfully cultivating a batch of meat at its pilot-scale plant. “Our goal is to focus on formulations that contain only cultivated beef cells along with spices, just as a regular burger is prepared,” Tomáš Kubeš, Head of Strategy Project, told Cultivated X. This milestone marks Bene Meat’s first showcase of a food product prototype. Since its establishment in 2020, the company has been committed to developing a sustainable and cruelty-free …

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Bene Meat Technologies Unveils “Cutting-Edge” Cell Bank, Seeks FDA Approval for Cultivated Pet Food

Czech cultivated meat startup Bene Meat Technologies (BMT) has unveiled what it describes as a cutting-edge cell bank, for the long-term supply of cells for cultivating different meat products. Developed over extensive research, the cell bank grants access to a sufficient quantity and variety of cells for research and production. It holds over 5,000 samples of high-quality primary cells from various species taken from small tissue samples, minimizing animal impact. The company explains that due to standardized processes, it delivers optimal preservation, ensuring purity and stability. Additionally, the facility has secure systems to safeguard sample continuity and safety, even in emergencies. Ing. Zuzana Šaturová, manager of the cell bank, shared, “The cell bank is a crucial element in our effort to produce meat in an …

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Meatable Receives €7.6M RVO Innovation Credit to Deliver Cultivated Meat at Scale

Dutch cultivated meat company Meatable has been awarded €7.6 million as part of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) Innovation Credit program. RVO’s Innovation Credits are designed to support “innovative development projects with considerable technological risks and excellent market prospects”. Meatable intends to use the funding to improve productivity and reduce costs as it moves towards commercialisation. The company will work as a partner to the conventional meat industry in order to roll out cultivated meat products at scale. Meatable previously raised $35 million last year in a funding round led by Agronomics. The company said at the time that it would use the capital to accelerate the launch of its cultivated pork products. Last month, Meatable announced that it had joined the APAC Society for …

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Israel's Believer Meats has announced a strategic partnership with GEA Group to make cultivated meat more affordable, accessible, and sustainable

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Believer Meats & GEA Partner to “Produce Cultivated Meat Products at the Right Cost”

Israel’s Believer Meats and GEA Group, one of the world’s technology and equipment suppliers for food manufacturers, have announced a strategic partnership to make cultivated meat more affordable, accessible, and sustainable. The collaboration will focus on co-developing technologies and processes to improve the unit economics and sustainability of cultivated meat production, starting with chicken and potentially expanding to other products. The collaboration follows Believer Meats’ recent MOU with AGWA, Abu Dhabi’s new food and water cluster, and a notable collaboration with the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein at NC State. Gustavo Burger, CEO of Believer Meats, shared, “Believer is on track to overcome the biggest obstacles to scalability. By partnering with GEA—one of the world’s foremost engineering and biotech equipment manufacturers—we are taking the next step in innovating …

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South Korea's TissenBioFarm announces it has won the "Cultured Meat Product of the Year" in the 2024 AgTech Breakthrough Awards.

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Marbled Cultivated Meat by TissenBioFarm Wins AgTech Breakthrough Award

South Korea’s TissenBioFarm announces it has won the “Cultured Meat Product of the Year” in the 2024 AgTech Breakthrough Awards. The cultivated meat startup says that the award recognizes the impact of its low-cost, scalable technologies for producing cultivated meat. AgTech Breakthrough is a market intelligence organization that acknowledges top companies, technologies, and products in the agricultural and food industry. Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director of AgTech Breakthrough, shared, “TissenBioFarm is creating a future where people, the environment, and animals are safe. This era of agriculture and food technology marks the next major period of sustainable future foods, but the low scalability and high costs of producing cultivated meat have caused a gap in the industry. The solution lies within sustainable and scalable technologies used for production.” …

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Pythag Tech Launches the “Clean Meat Terminal,” All-in-One Platform for Deep Industry Data

New York’s Pythag Tech, a technology company dedicated to “all things cultivated meat,” announces the launch of a market intelligence platform — the Clean Meat Terminal (CMT) — designed specifically for the cellular agriculture industry. CMT is said to offer a comprehensive, reliable, all-in-one source of deep industry data, aiming to simplify the navigation of the sector’s complex landscape. It caters to anyone invested in cultivated meat from investors seeking opportunities to researchers needing the latest data or companies staying updated. Sami Nabulsi, CEO of Pythag Technologies, shares: “As skeptics of the cultivated meat industry persist, Pythag Tech launches CMT with the opposite view.” Sector-specific data Pythag’s platform offers sector-specific data for business and academic needs. The platform’s key features include: Detailed metrics and insights …

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Ants Innovate Unveils Cell-Based Ingredient that “Captures the Maximum Flavor of Meat”

Singapore’s Ants Innovate, a deep tech startup focusing on developing cultivated whole meat cuts, held a private tasting to debut Cell Essence, a functional ingredient designed for hybrid (cell- and plant-based) products that is said to deliver an authentic meaty flavor. The Good Food Institute APAC reports that the company featured porcine Cell Essence in different meat alternative dishes, including meatballs, Shanghai-style soup dumplings, and teriyaki grilled meat skewers at the tasting. Attendee Calisa Lim, Senior Project Manager at APAC-SCA, shared on social media, “In a private tasting session today, the versatile cultivated oil was incorporated into an IKEA-style meatball, Shanghai-style xiao long bao (!), and a teriyaki grilled skewer. The small percentage of cells (<3%) was enough to deliver on the sweet, salty, and …

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Institute for Justice and UPSIDE Foods File Lawsuit Against State of Florida

In partnership with the cultivated chicken company UPSIDE Foods, the Institute for Justice (IJ) has filed a lawsuit against the Florida law banning cultivated meat. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill prohibiting the production, distribution, and sale of cultivated meat in the Sunshine State on May 1, 2024, and it went into effect on July 1. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida, argues that the ban on cultivated meat violates Constitutional provisions against protectionist measures “designed to favor in-state businesses at the expense of out-of-state competitors,” IJ stated. Here you can view a video created by IJ discussing the firm’s National Food Freedom initiative. The video features attorney Paul Sherman and Upside CEO Uma Valeti speaking on …

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CytoNest Inc., a startup from the University of Georgia, has released its first commercial product, the CytoSurge 3D fiber scaffold.

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CytoNest Unveils Edible 3D Scaffold for Cultivated Meat & Seafood

CytoNest Inc., a startup from the University of Georgia, has released its first commercial product, the CytoSurge 3D fiber scaffold. The new scaffold is an edible, fiber-based structure made from generally recognized as safe (GRAS) materials. Safe for use with living tissues, it has various applications, including cell research, biopharmaceuticals, cell therapeutics, and cultivated meat and seafood. CytoSurge 3D features ultra-long strands made with CytoNest’s proprietary fiber drawing technology capable of creating ultra-long fibers that are fused or overlaid to create a multilayered, 3D scaffold for cell cultures to attach and grow. Revolutionizing whole cuts According to CytoNest, the scaffold mimics the natural structure of meat, the extracellular matrix (ECM), and allows for nutrient flow, a feature crucial for industrial-scale production. It supports cells’ growth …

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Cultivated chicken on a small grill. Japan's government is making changes and transferring powers to different organizations to shift toward a more flexible approach to the novel food sector-

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JACA Unveils Blueprint for Cultivated Meat Safety & Regulation in Japan, Calls for Expert Feedback

The Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA) has released an extensive report, in English, analyzing international trends in the safety and regulatory assessment of cultivated meat. JACA, which works on policy-making to bring cell-based foods to the Japanese market, has plans to propose safety assessment criteria for Japanese regulatory authorities to continue building the country’s Novel Foods framework. With this report, the group is taking proactive steps to align Japan’s safety assessment criteria for cultivated foods with international standards, involve global experts in refining these criteria, and address the domestic shortage of knowledgeable food safety professionals. According to Megumi Avigail Yoshitomi, JACA’s Representative Director, the goal is to create a robust and harmonized regulatory framework that serves as a model for Japan and the global …

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oland's first cultivated meat startup, LabFarm, has received over PLN 9 million (around €2 million) from the National Centre for Research and Development.

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Polish Government Backs LabFarm With €2M Grant for Cultivated Chicken

Poland’s first cultivated meat startup, LabFarm, has received over PLN 9 million (around €2 million) from the National Centre for Research and Development (NCRD), the executive agency of the Polish Ministry of Education and Science co-financing R&D projects at the intersection of science and business. Founded in 2022 by molecular biologist Stanisław Łoboziak (CTO) and entrepreneur Wiesław Macherzyński (COO) in Warsaw’s Wilanów district, LabFarm focuses on cultivated chicken. The company is privately owned, and reportedly, its leading investor is Jarosław Krzyżanowski, president of KPS Food, an advanced poultry plant in Poland. The grant will enable LabFarm to optimize bioprocesses, scale up production, work on proprietary growth media, develop products, and expand its team, the startup announced. The nonprofit organization ProVeg International and the think tank Good Food …

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Gourmey Becomes First Company to Apply to Sell Cultivated Meat in the EU

Gourmey, a French startup producing cultivated foie gras, has become the first company to apply for regulatory approval to sell cultivated meat in the European Union. The startup has also submitted applications in Singapore, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Before it goes on the market, the cultivated foie gras will need to be approved by the European Commission. Authorisation will be governed by the Novel Foods Regulation, said to be one of the most robust food safety frameworks in the world. The process is likely to take at least 18 months, and will include a thorough assessment of the safety and nutritional value of cultivated meat. The potential social, economic, and environmental impacts of the product will also be considered, with input from member …

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Mosa Meat has conducted the first formal tasting of their cultivated beef product, the Mosa Burger, in The Netherlands.

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Mosa Meat Hosts First Official EU Cultivated Beef Tasting, Experts Rave It “Really Tasted Like Meat!”

Mosa Meat, the company founded by the creator of the world’s first cultivated burger patty, announces it has conducted the first formal tasting of its cultivated beef product, the Mosa Burger, in the Netherlands. The event marks the first official tasting of cultivated beef in the EU, following the single market’s inaugural tasting by Meatable in the Netherlands, which featured cultivated pork sausages. Mosa Meat’s much-anticipated tasting gathered Dutch cattle farmers, food product developers, and industry representatives to collect expert feedback. According to Mosa Meat, participants noted the burger’s authentic meat taste, juiciness, and succulence. “The burger really tasted like meat. […] Usually, I don’t eat meat, but I miss the taste of meat a lot, and this is the way to ultimately add it …

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Report: Cultivated Meat Could Provide Opportunities for Some UK Farmers

A report by the UK’s Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has investigated how the widespread adoption of cultivated meat could impact UK farmers. The results indicate that under the right circumstances, cultivated meat could provide opportunities for some farmers, such as supplying animal cells or raw materials for cultivated meat production. It may also be possible for farmers to turn crop or animal byproducts into an income stream by selling them as cultivated meat ingredients. According to the report, using these byproducts as amino acid sources could reduce the cost and environmental footprint of cultivated meat production. Other farmers may be able to gain private investment in order to produce cultivated meat on their own farms. However, it is believed that this would cost about 30% …

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Aleph Farms submited an application to Swiss regulators, marking the first-ever submission for cultivated meat in europe

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Aleph Farms Becomes First in Europe to Submit Cultivated Meat for Novel Foods Approval in Switzerland

Cultivated meat company Aleph Farms announces it has initiated the regulatory approval process to commercialize in Switzerland its premium Angus-style thin cultivated steak — dubbed the Petit Steak and claimed as the world’s first cultivated steak — marking the first-ever submission for cultivated meat in Europe. Aleph Farms says it has submitted an application for placing on the market novel and novel traditional foodstuffs to the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO). It is worth noting that if Aleph Farms gets novel food approval in Switzerland, the EU requires authorization from the European Commission for market placement in the region.  The Israeli company has previously announced plans to launch its brand of cultivated meat Aleph Cuts in Singapore and Israel in limited quantities (tasting experiences) once the regulatory …

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