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Mosa Meat Achieves ‘First’ B Corp Certification for a Cultivated Meat Company

September 7, 2023

Pioneer-cultivated beef company Mosa Meat announces it has become the ‘first’ cultivated meat company to receive B Corp certification. With this certification, Mosa Meat joins a community of more than 5,500 B Corp companies across 85 countries and 158 industries to transform the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. According to Maarten Bosch, CEO of Mosa Meat, the B Corp Certification confirms the company’s dedication to sustainable practices and it reinforces its leadership in the cellular agriculture industry. Mosa Meat is a privately held company established in the Netherlands, backed by Blue Horizon, Bell Food Group, Nutreco, Mitsubishi Corporation, and Leonardo DiCaprio. To date, the company has raised about $100 million to cultivate meat and mitigate the climate impact of industrial beef production. Creating real meat “We believe …

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World’s First Cultivated Beef Burger Marks Tenth Anniversary

August 1, 2023

This week marks ten years since Dr. Mark Post (CSO and co-founder of Mosa Meat) and his team unveiled the world’s first cultivated beef burger, which took over two years to develop and cost €250,000. The burger, created by growing stem cells from cows, was showcased at a tasting event in London on the 5th of August, 2013. To celebrate this watershed moment in food history, the Good Food Institute has shared some of the most significant milestones of the cultivated meat industry on its path to becoming a reality. Ten years later “Cultivated meat is very much a European innovation. Its foundations were laid by French and Dutch scientists, and this week marks ten years since the Netherlands’ Dr. Mark Post traveled to London …

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The Netherlands has become the first European country to allow cultivated meat and seafood tastings

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The Netherlands Makes History as First European Country to Allow Cultivated Meat and Seafood Tastings

July 5, 2023

The Netherlands has become the first European country to allow cultivated meat and seafood tastings, even before an EU novel food approval. Today the Dutch government announced that the much-awaited tastings will soon take place under limited conditions. Although the first piece of cultivated meat was developed in the Netherlands, until now, it was illegal for anyone — even scientists — to taste it. But after this historic agreement, investors, partners, consumers, and scientists will soon taste Mosa Meat’s beef burgers, Meatable‘s cultivated pork, and future developments. Krijn de Nood, CEO at Meatable, comments: “This is great news for the Netherlands. We know cultivated meat can significantly help reduce climate impact. By enabling the tasting of cultivated meat, The Netherlands maintains its pioneering role in Europe and …

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Mosa Meat Opens World’s Largest Cultivated Meat Campus to Launch Cultivated Burgers

May 9, 2023

Dutch biotech company Mosa Meat opened a new 2,760 square-meter facility in Maastricht on Monday as it prepares for market entry with its first consumer product — cultivated burgers. “As this scale-up facility comes online next month, we will have the capacity to make tens of thousands of cultivated hamburgers,” said Maarten Bosch, CEO of Mosa Meat. Unveiled last October, this fourth facility completes the Mosa C.A.M.P.U.S. (Center for Advanced Meat Production, Upscaling, and Sustainability) with a total footprint of 7,340 square meters, reportedly making it the largest cultivated meat campus in the world. Hundreds of thousands of burgers Founded in 2016, Mosa Meat introduced the world’s first cultivated beef hamburger grown “directly” from cow cells in 2013. Through the years, the company has overcome the industry’s …

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Food Safety Risks in Cultivated Meat Are Similar to Those of Conventional Meat, Concludes Mark Post For FAO Report

April 5, 2023

The FAO/WHO Scientific Advice Programme has officially launched a new publication entitled Food Safety Aspects of Cell-Based food. The report offers accurate information and scientific knowledge on cell-based food production to authorities in low- and middle-income countries, to enable them to take any necessary regulatory actions. Furthermore, they can benefit from the experiences of more developed countries by learning from their good practices in this field, explains FAO. Dr. Mark Post, CSO and co-founder of the Dutch company Mosa Meat, who in 2013, revealed the world’s first cultivated burger in London, served on FAO’s technical panel as a consultant expert for the report. Since more than 100 companies, including Mosa Meat, are already developing cell-based food products ready for commercialization and will be awaiting approval soon, …

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Mosa Meat and Nutreco Sign LOI to Produce Low-Cost Cell Feed Supply Chain

March 3, 2023March 2, 2023

Dutch food tech company Mosa Meat and Nutreco, a global leader in animal nutrition and aqua feed, have signed a Letter of Intention (LOI) announcing their commitment to develop and produce a low-cost cell feed supply chain to scale up the production of cultivated beef. “Our partnership with Nutreco represents our commitment to further develop the cellular agriculture supply chain and bring down costs,” shared Maarten Bosch, Mosa Meat’s CEO. Both companies have been working for several years on a project called ‘Feed for Meat’, which was awarded a REACT-EU grant in 2021, implemented to reduce the costs of cell feed and thus lower the costs of cultivating meat. Significant cost saving Founded in 2016, Mosa Meat is a privately held company backed by Blue Horizon, Bell …

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The Companies Removing Fetal Bovine Serum to Make Ethical, Slaughter-Free Meat

June 21, 2023January 24, 2023

Last week, GOOD Meat received the first-in-the-world regulatory approval to use fetal bovine serum-free media in its cultivated poultry production process. With this significant milestone in the history of cultivated meat, we discuss the companies paving the way for ethical, slaughter-free meat. Removing fetal bovine serum (FBS) from cultivated meat production has been among the industry’s major challenges. FBS has been the default growth supplement for in vitro cell culture used by academic and industrial researchers and scientists, including in the cellular agriculture space. Ethically problematic Fetal bovine serum is made by harvesting the blood of bovine fetuses taken from pregnant cows during slaughter. Blood from the fetus is drawn out via a closed collection system and then transformed into a serum. FBS contains growth factors, hormones, …

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Mosa Meat Whitepaper Urges Governments & Food Industry to Invest in Cultivated Meat

December 21, 2022

Cultivated beef pioneer Mosa Meat has released a whitepaper calling on governments and the food industry to collaborate to mitigate the climate impact of industrial beef production by investing in the advancement of the cellular agriculture industry. “Beef needs a solution. Industrial meat production continues to accelerate the climate crisis, while the world’s demand for beef is steadily growing. We are creating an alternative approach to producing real beef. I am very excited for what lies ahead as we help reshape the global food system,” says Maarten Bosch, Mosa Meat’s CEO. “Swapping meat with meat” Mosa Meat believes that only “swapping meat with meat” has the potential for the mass consumer adoption needed to solve the sustainability issues currently associated with our food system. But to …

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Global Cultured Meat Markets Report – By 2040, a Projected 60% of Meat will be Created from Cells Grown Within Bioreactors and Sold Across Grocery Stores and Restaurants Worldwide

June 21, 2023November 25, 2022

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “The Global Market for Cultured Meat – Market Size, Trends, Competitors, and Forecasts (2022)” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. By 2040, a projected 60% of the meat will be created from cells grown within bioreactors and sold across grocery stores and restaurants worldwide. The rise of the cultured meat market will be supported by the sustainability of the process, as well as the industry’s ability to provide “tailor-made nutrition” through its meat and seafood products. Recent surveys indicate that nearly 50% of the consumers do not have any reservations about cultured meat. Over the next 10 to 20 years, the cultured meat market is projected to act as a major disruptor to the conventional meat market. The number of startups focused …

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Mosa Meat on Cultivated Beef as Top Discussion at COP27

November 16, 2022

Mosa Meat, the Netherlands company that famously developed the first hamburger made from cultivated beef back in 2013, is in attendance at COP27 to represent the cultivated meat sector. Maarten Bosch, CEO of Mosa Meat — which has raised over $85M to date from investors including Leonardo DiCaprio — gives his insights into the discussions at the conference and how world leaders are looking towards cultivated meat as a way to feed future generations sustainably, on a planet whose population has already surpassed 8 billion humans. Please tell us, in light of discussions at the conference in Egypt, how the climate crisis is reshaping the global food system Food systems around the world face a lot of challenges including vulnerability to supply shocks like Ukraine, …

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Mosa Meat Expands to First Industrial-Scale Production of Cultivated Beef

October 20, 2022

Dutch food tech company Mosa Meat announces it has entered the next phase of scaling up cultivated beef by expanding its production facilities to a total of 77,000 sq. ft. The new space, together with existing operations and pilot facilities, will reportedly make Mosa the largest cultivated meat campus in the world. Expected to launch in 2023, the latest development center will house industrial-size production lines and enable larger production quantities of beef. Simultaneously, the company has expanded its footprint at existing operation centers in Brightlands and a pilot facility in Maastricht. The company took the next steps toward commercializing production after demonstrating its beef cultivation process at pilot scale. According to Mosa, its R&D capacity continues to grow rapidly, with over 160 employees, including 80 …

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Cultured Meat Law Breakthrough in the Netherlands as Public Samplings Approved

June 8, 2022March 17, 2022

In another step forward for the European cultivated meat industry, the government of the Netherlands has passed a motion to legalize the sampling of cell-cultured meat products. The legal breakthrough could pave the way for cultivated meat to be sold in supermarkets within a few years, according to Dutch manufacturers. “Cultivated meat deserves a fair chance and that’s why we have to make tastings possible” The motion, proposed by the D66 and VVD parties, was passed in the House of Representatives this week making it legally possible to host public samplings of cultivated meat products. Although public sampling in order to gain acceptance, support, and feedback is currently legal in many European countries, the law had held back some of the Dutch originators of the …

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€2M EU Grant Brings Nutreco & Mosa Meat Closer to Launching Cultivated Beef in Europe

October 21, 2021

Nutreco and Mosa Meat have received a €2 million grant to advance cellular agriculture and bring cultivated beef to the EU market, from the European REACT-EU recovery assistance programme. The joint ‘Feed for Meat’ project ranked first place in the scheme which received over 60 funding applications. Headquartered in Maastricht, The Netherlands, Mosa Meat is a privately held company backed by Blue Horizon, Bell Food Group, Nutreco, Mitsubishi Corporation, Leonardo DiCaprio and others. Says Mosa Meat in a blog post; “Today we are proud to announce a grant awarded from React EU to lower the costs of cultivating beef and further improve the sustainability of the cellular agriculture value chain, in collaboration with our investor and partner Nutreco. The grant was awarded for research into …

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Aleph Farms and The Technion Reveal Worlds First Cultivated Ribeye Steak

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2021 Declared Year of Cultivated Meat by FAIRR Report With $506M Invested So Far

October 5, 2021

Analysis by the FAIRR Initiative shows that 2021 is “the year of cultivated meat,” with $506 million invested so far this year into cultivated meat firms, already far surpassing previous years. The report has also found consumer demand for alt protein products in North America is exploding, with 39% of US households now buying plant-based milk and plant-based food sales rising to nearly twice as much as overall US retail food sales last year. FAIRR’s research shows how cultivated meat – a genuine slaughter-free animal protein source – experienced a sixfold increase of investment to reach $366 million in 2020, but that total has already been exceeded in 2021, which so far has seen investment of $506 million into cultivated meat firms. Eat Just’s GOOD …

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Leonardo DiCaprio Invests in Cell-Cultured Beef Leaders Mosa Meat and Aleph Farms

September 22, 2021

Environmental activist and Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio has joined cell-cultured beef pioneers Mosa Meat and Aleph Farms as an investor and advisor. “One of the most impactful ways to combat the climate crisis is to transform our food system” – Leonardo DiCaprio Both companies have demonstrated the ability to grow beef directly from animal cells, with Dutch company Mosa Meat recently making huge progress and raising over $85 million dollars this year. Cell-cultured steak producer Aleph Farms also enjoyed a $105 million raise this year, with the Israeli company telling vegconomist in a recent interview that it is currently; “Scaling-up manufacturing, growing operations internationally, and expanding its product lines and technology platform ahead of Aleph Farms’ initial market launch in 2022.” Leonardo DiCaprio & …

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Mosa Meat Reduces Cost of Fat Medium by 66 Times, Draws Closer to Price Parity

May 17, 2021

Dutch cell-cultured meat company Mosa Meat has successfully removed animal components from the differentiation media used to grow its cultured fat cells. It has also optimised the composition of the media.

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Mosa Meat Closes Out its Series B Round at $85 Million After Additional $10M

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021

Dutch cultured meat pioneer, Mosa Meat, the food tech company which developed the world’s first cultivated beef burger in 2013, has announced the closing of its Series B round. The funding represents further investment in the cell-based sphere, with various big players ramping up development globally.

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Mosa Meat’s Funding Surpasses an Incredible $75 Million

December 8, 2020

With an additional $20 million, the total amount raised in the Series B financing round to date by clean meat pioneer Mosa Meat now exceeds $75 million.

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Mosa Meats Secures EUR 55M in Series B Funding Led by Blue Horizon Ventures

June 28, 2021September 25, 2020

It was announced this morning that Netherlands-based cultured meat pioneers Mosa Meat has secured EUR 55M as part of a Series B funding round led by Blue Horizon Ventures, a VC firm founded by Roger Lienhard and Michael Kleindl which also holds positions in CUBIQ Foods, Love Raw, Alpha Foods, and Veestro.

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Mosa Meats Announces it Has Reduced Production Costs by 88 Times

July 23, 2020

Mosa Meat has announced in a blog that it is making huge steps towards achieving its mission to reshape global food systems by successfully developing animal-free media and reducing the cost of production by 88 times.

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