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The former Better Meat Co has cleared India’s novel food pathway for Rhiza, its Neurospora crassa mycelium ingredient, making India its fourth approved market after the US, Singapore and Canada, with supply to Indian food manufacturers tied to…
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Marc Lore’s $9 billion Wonder plans at least 100 Texas locations by end-2027, is automating commissary-fed kitchens toward a 2040…
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A Food Research International study by Vivici, dsm-firmenich and Fonterra researchers found precision-fermented BLG showed no detectable aggregation at 140…
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The €4.5M Horizon Europe project EPIC-SHIFT has characterised 28 alternative protein ingredients, from fungi and bacteria to microalgae and side-streams…
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A University of Chicago analysis estimates a mandatory federal ultra-processed food label would capture 72% of packaged products and 51%…
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Tokyo-based Kinish has raised ¥490 million (about US$3.1 million) in the first close of its Series A, backed by Shimadzu’s…
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Precision fermentation company Oobli and Cosun Ingredients have co-developed a sugar replacement system for chocolate that pairs Oobli’s sweet proteins…
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Israeli biotech Brevel has formed a 50:50 joint venture with Indian conglomerate The Wave Group to build a 300,000-litre illuminated…
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London-based Better Dairy has completed a self-affirmed GRAS determination in the US for lactopontin, its yeast-made, human-sequence osteopontin, opening the…
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FSIS has announced a Class I recall of about 1.58 million pounds of Kayem Foods ready-to-eat meat and poultry, including…
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London- and Chicago-based Opply has raised $7.5 million, led by Chalfen Ventures with Index Ventures and Anthemis participating, after growing…
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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…
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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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Indian sugar producer Dhampur Bio Organics has signed a technology licensing agreement with Swiss fermentation company Planetary for exclusive mycoprotein…
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Food Standards Australia New Zealand has approved Paris-based Gourmey’s cell-cultured duck biomass as a wholesale and foodservice ingredient for products…
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Paris-based CarbonFarm has closed an oversubscribed €7 million Series A led by Colam Impact to expand its AI- and satellite-based…
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