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Silgan Holdings and private equity firm American Industrial Partners will combine Silgan's metal containers and food and beverage closures businesses with Trivium Packaging in a $3.4 billion all-cash deal, forming Silgan MCC, a metal packaging group with about…
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Israeli agtech company BloomX has closed a $13 million Series A led by Elah Fund to expand its AI-guided robotic…
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Hamburg trading group CREMER is pairing its FermBase fermentation media business with Munich startup Differential Bio's robotic lab automation and…
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A lab-scale study from Nanyang Technological University and Japanese food manufacturer Ichimasa Kamaboko shows solid-state fermentation with Pleurotus ostreatus can…
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New American Heart Association polling shows shoppers lean heavily on on-pack labels to judge ultra-processed foods, while the Non-GMO Project's…
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With novel foods left out of the Biotech Act's regulatory sandboxes, the Ministry of Future Affairs is recruiting up to…
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The WHO's Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health has signed a multi-year partnership with GFI APAC to produce a flagship…
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FDA has finalised a rule letting manufacturers use safe and suitable salt substitutes in 139 standards of identity, from cheese…
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A new Abu Dhabi guideline lets novel food developers run regulated tasting and sensory evaluation studies of cultivated meat, precision-fermented…
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Those Vegan Cowboys, XXL Nutrition, Interfood and HAS University will use a €1.2 million EU OPZuid grant to develop animal-free…
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UK fermentation group Mycofeast has bought Auckland's Daisy Lab, folding its animal-free whey protein team and near-commercial bovine lactoferrin programme…
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A US federal judge has thrown out Onego Bio's case against The EVERY Company over a recombinant ovalbumin patent, ending…
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CJ CheilJedang will take a 63% stake alongside ADM in a new Americas joint venture combining Iowa, Illinois and Brazil…
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Growing Roslin's porcine pluripotent stem cells on Ever After Foods' PlantriX edible scaffold delivered 19 times the cultivated protein of…
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UK startup iBoxit has raised about £962,000, including Innovate UK support, to scale a biodegradable plant-based foam as an expanded-polystyrene…
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PLASTPOMCoolBioPack pairs a moisture-resistant biodegradable polymer with ventilated tray geometry to speed berry cool-down, backed by nearly PLN 1.47 million…
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