NEW TECH FOODS

Vital Meat held a tasting of its cultured chicken products at HUE restaurant in Singapore earlier this month.

Sallea has closed a $2.6 million funding round to help manufacturers of cultivated foods accelerate the production of premium whole cuts.

Czech start-up Bene Meat Technologies has successfully produced its first cultivated beef burger.

Austrian precision fermentation start-up Fermify has obtained self-GRAS status for its animal-free casein.

Liberation Labs has raised an additional $3.39 million through investments from Agronomics and the US Department of Defense (DoD).

Sparkalis, the food tech venture arm of Belgian chocolate giant Puratos, has invested in California Cultured.

New analysis predicts that Europe's cell-based meat market could deliver between €20bn and €85bn in annual economic contributions.

Bene Meat Technologies has unveiled a ‘cutting-edge cell bank,’ for the long-term supply of cells for cultivating different meat products.