NEW TECH FOODS

The Every Company has secured $55 million in Series D funding to expand manufacturing capacity and advance commercialisation of its precision-fermented egg proteins.

Believer Meats has received approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its product label and large-scale production facility in North Carolina.

Atlantic Fish Co (AFC) has raised $1.2 million in seed funding to accelerate the development and regulatory progress of its cultivated seafood products.

Hoxton Farms has submitted a regulatory dossier to the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) seeking market approval for its cultivated fat ingredient, Hoxton Fat.

PepsiCo has partnered with Griffith Foods and Milhão to launch a direct farmer incentive pilot programme promoting regenerative agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado region, one of the world’s most biodiverse savannas and a key agricultural production area. The Cerrado produces around 60% of Brazil’s soybeans and significant volumes of corn, but the region faces increasing environmental pressure from deforestation, soil degradation and climate change. PepsiCo identifies the area as one of its...

University College London (UCL) biochemical engineering student Ayaan Shah has developed edible hydrogel scaffolds designed to give cultivated meat realistic structure, as part of a summer research project presented at the European Laidlaw Foundation Conference at Durham University.

Almost four in ten UK consumers (38%) say they would support the development of chocolate made using precision fermentation, according to new research commissioned by science marketing consultancy Diffusion.

Kingdom Five has launched K5 Radical Protein, a new solid-state fermentation platform that grows whole-food mycoprotein using the edible filamentous fungus Neurospora.