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🐟 Cultivated Fish Producer Courts the Seafood Industry with New Pathogen Detection Tool

Singapore’s Umami Bioworks, which is working on commercialising cultivated fish products, launched a pathogen detection tool for the seafood industry.

• This marks what the company calls a “pivotal expansion” of its biotech offerings beyond cultivated meat and pet food to help a number of industry sectors.

• Umami Bioworks claims Arbiter can transform disease diagnosis in species like salmon, shrimp, and tilapia, which minimises economic losses linked to infectious diseases.

• The company says that getting validation and adoption in the market will demonstrate some of the value its core platform can offer.

• The move underlines a key theme in recent discussions about progress for the alt protein industry: working with the existing protein industries, instead of against them, is much more likely to lead to success in the long term.

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❓ EXCLUSIVE: Meatable CEO Jeff Tripician Gets Practical
In an exclusive interview, Meatable’s Jeff Tripician tells Green Queen about his journey from meat industry veteran to cultivated meat CEO, why these proteins should be more expensive, the company’s upcoming Series C round, and its global regulatory plans.

👀 Deep Dive: Are US State Bans On Food Waste Really Not Working?
Several US states have introduced food waste bans. Of the first five, only one state’s approach has worked, according to a recent study. But there’s more to this than meets the eye.

📈 Must-Read Headlines

🍯 Californian startup MeliBio secured a “strategic investment” as part of a pre-Series A round to scale distribution of its plant-based sweetener, Mellody.
💡MeliBio began as a precision fermentation company, and that remains its core target in the long term - but in the meantime it can already produce 10,000 lbs of Mellody per day and is planning to grow this even further. 

🌱 LA-based vegan fast food chain Mr Charlie’s Told Me So secured investment from Carma HoldCo, parent company of sports legends Mike Tyson and Ric Flair’s brands.
💡Mr Charlie’s has developed a franchise model targeting area developers and master franchisees in large US territories, with plans in place for international expansion.

🥛 British TV presenter Maya Jama has become an investor and co-owner of Swedish pea milk innovator Sproud to drive its global expansion.
💡The company looks to be targeting a share of the UK’s oat milk market, which underwent a PR hit earlier this year when online influencers and media outlets raised (unfounded) concerns about its health credentials.

🚫 The EU Commission has rejected the evidence provided by Hungary to justify banning cultivated meat, alongside several other member states, calling the proposed ban “unjustified”.
💡It noted that a ban “could pre-empt the harmonised authorisation procedure for novel foods at EU level, which includes a scientific assessment by EFSA.”

🧫 Everything Else In Future Food

🥩 US food tech startup Chunk Foods is rolling out its whole-cut plant-based steak products at independent retailers in the country, ahead of a wider retail launch in 2025.

📈 Analysis of previously unpublished Circana data by the Good Food Institute Europe shows that, despite the industry’s headwinds, retail sales of plant-based food in six major European markets increased by 5.5% in 2023. Here’s what could help companies to keep winning in the space.

🇺🇸 A new study by Kroger, the Plant Based Foods Institute, and 84.51° reveals that Americans are attracted to meat analogues mainly for their health benefits, but to overcome the sales slump, plant-based companies must offer better-tasting and cheaper products.

💰 UK universities could benefit from massive cost and emissions savings if they switched to 100% plant-based catering, according to analysis by UK consultancy Bryant Research.

📊 An intercontinental survey – covering over 8,650 people in Brazil, Germany, South Africa, India, and the US – shows that around 40% of consumers back measures like rationing and taxing high-impact commodities like meat and fuel to address the climate crisis.

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🌱🍔  Future Food Quick Bites 

In our weekly column, Future Food Quick Bites, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat’s European exploits, a big week for plant-based milk in the US, and cultivated seafood’s national TV debut in Japan.

📆 Scene & Heard

The Countdown is on for the ProVeg Food Innovation Challenge

🌱 The ProVeg Food Innovation Challenge focuses on innovation using Asian indigenous ingredients, combining global impact with local relevance. Participants will develop sustainable food solutions that address global concerns and, at the same time, help to preserve local culinary traditions and support community livelihoods. Through this unique approach, students can make a tangible difference to the future of food and sustainability. The application deadline is approaching; apply here now.

👩🏽‍🌾 On November 11th, Top 50 Farmers will open nominations for its first cohort, inviting regenerative farmers across Europe to serve as role models and catalysts in advancing the adoption of and transition to regenerative agriculture, inspiring new talent and ensuring a future where regenerative agriculture thrives. It also offers pathways to capital and market opportunities and peer-to-peer connection. Nominate a farmer here.

🇨🇭 If you are a startup or a scaleup with proven solutions or technologies in the areas of Sustainable Food & Feed Solutions, Sustainable Supply Chain & Manufacturing, Sustainable Packaging & Materials, AgTech, and Side streams valorization, then the MassChallenge Switzerland Sustainable Food Solutions Challenge 2025 is the challenge for YOU! Apply here.

Want More? Check out Green Queen’s Deep Dive series: 

• Blended Meats Are Here 

• Meat Misinformation Deep Dive

• Ozempic & the GLP-1 Revolution

• Policy Matters: Regulating Future Food Innovation

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