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Brief: Nutrition Technologies lands $20m to expand insect-protein operation across Asia

AFN Sustainable Protein

The biotech company’s production system leverages black soldier fly larvae to produce proteins for animal feed and fertilizers. CEO and co-founder Nick Piggott noted that in addition to increasing shipments across Southeast Asia, the company will soon start shipping to the UK and Europe.

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Demo plant produces industrial sugars from mixed household waste fractions

Envirotec Magazine

The South Wales-based plant’s commissioning marks the next phase of the innovative VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project, set up to examine the feasibility of innovative resource recovery techniques to use municipal waste as a raw material feedstock for the circular and bio-based economy.

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Brief: GOOD Meat set to significantly cut costs with Singapore’s approval of new cell meat growth material

AFN Sustainable Protein

In the UK for instance, participants say the approval process for cultured meat is slow and a case where regulation is not catching up with innovation. It’s not just Singapore that’s pushing the industry forward in Asia. In the US, Upside Foods recently became the first company to get FDA approval for cultivated meat.

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A plant-based recovery? The Vegetarian Butcher's Hugo Verkuil on shifting diets during a pandemic

Business Green

Products are just tastier now than ever before, thanks to leaps in food technology innovation, he says. Unilever is also exploring the use of algae for its food products through a recently brokered partnership with UK biotech start-up Algenuity, he says.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

My Green Lab's 15 partners and sponsors include biotech giant Genentech, MilliporeSigma and USA Scientific. There's a ton of innovation happening," he said. And scientists can share ideas across the global sites, which is driving innovation in product development as well as employee engagement. "We Projects and progress.

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Meet the founder: Marica Quarsingh of Sea-Stematic on creating the ‘Tesla of Seafood’

AFN Sustainable Protein

We are also engaged globally, which means we understand the innovation, collaboration and co-creation. They have run and owned some parts of the value chain and have biotech companies that have patents in different parts of the world that have been majorly funded. We already have cultivated protein companies.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

Applying the latest technologies from biotech, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, and food science, entrepreneurs are trying to create new animal-free products that are cheaper, healthier, tastier, and more sustainable. Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors.