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News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Spoonshot on how foodtech can reduce food waste

With the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste just around the corner, Labiotech caught up with Spoonshot co-founder and CEO Kishan Vasani to find out how the foodtech sector can tackle food waste. Spoonshot is a software platform for food and beverage professionals that delivers category intelligence by leveraging data from more […]

September 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 27 Sep 2022

Watch: Scottish biotech startup looking to sustainable omega-3 production

Established in 2016, Edinburgh-headquartered MiAlgae says there is a global threat to oceans caused by overfishing to supply omega-3 oil for human and animal consumption. This prompted the development of a solution through the circular economy. Labiotech visited the company recently to find out more about its operations. Using its biotech platform, MiAlgae uses co-products […]

September 27, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 27 Sep 2022

EU Agriculture Ministers meet in Prague to discuss sustainability and food security

At an informal gathering of EU Agriculture Ministers, food security and the role of European agriculture and sustainable global food production were the main discussion points. At the meeting held in Prague, the EU agriculture ministers also agreed that the time is now to act in a coordinated way to maximize sustainable increases in agricultural […]

September 27, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 27 Sep 2022

Watch: IntelliDigest using biotech to tackle food waste

After obtaining a PhD in environmental engineering, Ifeyinwa Kanu set up IntelliDigest in 2016. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the Heriot-Watt University Business School Incubator, the biotechnology company specializes in food sustainability. The company aims to address the sustainability challenges faced by the entire global food system, including producers, processors, manufacturers, retailers, and consumers. This […]

September 27, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 27 Sep 2022

Europe’s first lab-grown fish company Bluu Seafood is aiming for sustainability

Overfishing is a global issue that negatively impacts the ecosystem and our access to fish protein. One solution to overfishing is producing fish products in the lab from harvested animal cells. This can help feed the world while using up fewer resources and without endangering wild fish populations. As the world’s population continues to grow, […]

September 27, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

ANINA Transforms Ugly veg into Artistic Ready Meal 2 002

News and Trends 21 Sep 2022

Anina – reshaping the future of food by upcycling rejected vegetables

Two industrial design students were so concerned by the huge amounts of perfectly good fresh produce being wasted, they spent two years working on a healthy solution. Esti Brantz and Meydan Levy noticed that fruit and veg was getting tossed in the trash due to cosmetic reasons such as size, shape, color differences, or […]

September 21, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 20 Sep 2022

ten23 health completes superstructure of new sterile production facility

ten23 health, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) has completed the superstructure of its new sterile manufacturing facility. The existing facility of ten23 health’s swissfillon AG company in Visp already offers sterile manufacturing of pre-filled syringes, vials, and cartridges for clinical trial and commercial supplies, in collaboration with ten23 health’s development center in […]

September 20, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Sep 2022

Fooditive creating bee-free honey using precision fermentation biotech

Dutch plant-based ingredients company Fooditive is scaling up existing products and introducing the latest developments: LowSalt & Bee-free-Honey. “We feel like the next chapter of this journey has just begun. With the support from our shareholders, clients, partners and our team we are focused to increase our impact and make a fundamental change in the […]

September 20, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

Onego Bio secures extra funding for egg white production technology

Onego Bio is a biotech spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The company uses a commercially proven Trichoderma technology to solve environmental problems associated with eggs, one of the world’s most used animal proteins. Onego Bio said its sustainable and cost-effective precision fermentation method produces ovalbumin, the most abundant egg white protein, and […]

September 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

Cultivated Biosciences raises $1.5M to take fats to the next frontier

Cultivated Biosciences, an ingredient startup biotech company founded by Swiss entrepreneurs Tomas Turner and Dimitri Zogg, has just raised a $1.5M pre-seed round. The funding will enable the growing team to further optimize its production processes, research food applications and start product development of its creamy ingredient for dairy alternatives from non-GMO yeast with their […]

September 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Best in Biotech 25 Aug 2022

Five cleantech companies making New Zealand more green

Cleantechs are focused on reducing negative environmental impacts by offering recycling, renewable energy, green chemistry solutions and more. From extracting gold from old electronics to seaweed supplements for cattle, here are five cleantech companies hailing from New Zealand. New Zealand has been ranked fourth in the world for biotechnology innovation potential. By leveraging the country’s […]

August 25, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

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Best in Biotech 23 Aug 2022

Five industrial biotech companies making Japan more sustainable

Japan has big plans to lead the world’s push to become more sustainable. Here are five local sustainable tech companies that could help it meet this mission. Japan is best known for its well-developed technology and manufacturing firms. The nation also hosts a thriving biotechnology sector, with players across sectors including healthcare and industrial biotechnology. […]

August 23, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Spoonshot on how foodtech can reduce food waste

Watch: Scottish biotech startup looking to sustainable omega-3 production

EU Agriculture Ministers meet in Prague to discuss sustainability and food security

Watch: IntelliDigest using biotech to tackle food waste

Europe’s first lab-grown fish company Bluu Seafood is aiming for sustainability

Anina – reshaping the future of food by upcycling rejected vegetables

ten23 health completes superstructure of new sterile production facility

Fooditive creating bee-free honey using precision fermentation biotech

Onego Bio secures extra funding for egg white production technology

Cultivated Biosciences raises $1.5M to take fats to the next frontier

Five cleantech companies making New Zealand more green

Five industrial biotech companies making Japan more sustainable

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