NEW TECH FOODS

Miranda Stahn, New Harvest’s programme manager for Western Canada, and Yadira Tejeda Saldana, the organisation’s Canadian director of responsible research and innovation, explain how CAPE plans to help farmers create new income streams, make better use of agricultural sidestreams and build a strong, sustainable food innovation hub in the Prairies.

Dutch biotech company NoPalm Ingredients has announced plans to establish its first demonstration factory at the Food Innovation Campus operated by NIZO Food Research in Ede.

The Good Food Institute (GFI) has announced that Nigel Sizer – a climate and public health expert and former head of the Rainforest Alliance – will be joining as its new chief executive on 26 August.

The Better Meat Co (BMC) has secured $31 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round to expand its patented mycoprotein fermentation technology to commercial scale.

Nourish Ingredients has received ‘generally recognised as safe’ (GRAS) status from the Flavour and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) for the use of its proprietary Mortierella alpina biomass (S11) as a flavouring in food.

Colorcon Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Colorcon, has invested in Israeli start-up Phytolon, which develops natural food colourings using precision fermentation of modified baker’s yeast.

Prefer has raised $4.2 million in an oversubscribed funding round and launched its first commercial products.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a 'No Questions' letter to food tech company TurtleTree, confirming the safety of its precision-fermented lactoferrin (LF+) for use in food.

Mara Renewables has raised $9.1 million from S2G Investments to to expand its algae-based omega-3 platform, increase research and development and scale production to meet growing global demand for sustainable nutrition solutions.

Danish bioproduction company 21st.Bio has launched a new development programme to commercialise bovine alpha-lactalbumin using precision fermentation.

The plan includes €350 million in funding to help scale up fermentation technologies that can support the development of sustainable food ingredients and alternative proteins.

The UK government has announced its Digital & Technology Sector Plan as part of its broader Industrial Strategy, including a £184m Engineering Biology Scale-up Infrastructure Programme to build and upgrade facilities.

Tetra Pak has announced that its pilot New Food Technology Development Centre in Karlshamn, Sweden, is now open for business.

Two new open-access facilities in the Netherlands – Biotechnology Fermentation Factory (BFF) in Ede and Cultivate at Scale (CaS) in Maastricht – are set to strengthen the country’s position in cellular agriculture and precision fermentation.

Swedish food-tech start-up Millow has commissioned its first large-scale dry-state fermentation factory, supported by the European Innovation Council, to produce its clean label protein made from oats and mycelium.

Muu, an animal-free dairy start-up based in Bangkok, Thailand, has secured strategic investment from A2D Ventures, Leave a Nest Japan and...

US-based biomanufacturer of fermentation-based ingredients, DMC Biotechnologies, has announced the availability of fermented myo-inositol...

Daisy Lab, a New Zealand-based precision fermentation company, has achieved a major milestone in the production of bovine lactoferrin, a...

A miniature laboratory containing yeast microbes, designed to produce proteins and other food ingredients in space, has been launched...

Liberation Labs, a biomanufacturing scale-up backed by Agronomics, has announced a strategic partnership with the NEOM Investment Fund...