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Week31

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Louis Dreyfus doubles canola crush capacity; Cargill Ventures resumes agrifoodtech deals; Fairlife hit by ransomware

Louis Dreyfus Company has doubled its Yorkton, Saskatchewan, canola crushing capacity to two million tonnes annually and added a pea protein line processing 75,000 tonnes of yellow peas. Separately, a ransomware attack forced Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy subsidiary to suspend U.S. production, while Cargill Ventures resumed dealmaking with two unannounced investments.

Week29

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ADM partners on microbial egg protein; JBS drops net-zero pledge; Steakholder Foods ships plant-based meat line to U.S.

ADM and EVERY Company will produce microbial egg protein at commercial scale in Clinton, Iowa, while JBS removed its 2040 net-zero target and all time-bound deforestation commitments from its latest sustainability report. Steakholder Foods shipped its Perfecta plant-based meat line to the U.S. through KeHE Distributors, and Hebrew University engineered plant seeds to produce bovine dairy protein.

Week28

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Crespel & Deiters scales dry extrusion; New Culture patents casein mozzarella; UK issues cell-cultured meat guidance

Crespel & Deiters will deploy Happy Plant Protein's dry extrusion technology at commercial scale in the Netherlands, while New Culture secured a second U.S. patent covering animal-free casein mozzarella made through microbial fermentation. UK food regulators published new guidance for cell-cultured meat businesses, and Romania moved to ban such products pending an EU safety framework.

Week27

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Scottish study backs plant-rich diets; Biosphere acquires NovoNutrients assets; Beyond Meat launches mycelium steak

A Scottish microsimulation of 33 dietary pathways found that shifting toward plant-rich diets cuts emissions and chronic disease risk without raising costs, while Biosphere acquired defunct NovoNutrients' gas fermentation assets to support a $9 million U.S. military protein-production contract. Beyond Meat debuted a mycelium-based steak filet at Wegmans and H-E-B, and Arizona signed labeling requirements for cell-cultured meat.

Week26

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EU drafts protein strategy to cut imports; EVERY quadruples egg protein output; South Dakota bans cell-cultured meat sales

EVERY quadrupled its microbial-fermentation-derived egg protein capacity through a partnership with Huvepharma's Biovet AD subsidiary, drawing on over nine million liters of fermentation capacity in Bulgaria. The EU drafted a protein strategy to reduce reliance on Brazilian and Chinese imports, while South Dakota enacted a five-year moratorium on cell-cultured meat sales.

Week25

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Solar Foods wins €78m for Factory 02; EU approves first whole-food mycelium ingredient; FAO mobilizes against foot-and-mouth SAT1 spread

Solar Foods secured €78 million in Finnish government funding for its industrial-scale hydrogen fermentation facility, while Protein Brewery won the EU's first novel food authorization for a whole-food mycelium ingredient. The FAO is deploying $400,000 in emergency support after the foot-and-mouth SAT1 serotype reached East Asia, with potential regional losses estimated at $5–6 billion annually.

Week23

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IFF sells food unit for $4.3B; Israeli scaffold technique cuts cell-cultured meat costs tenfold; FAO warns livestock antibiotic use could surge 30%

IFF agreed to sell its food ingredients business to CVC Capital Partners for $4.3 billion, while Israeli researchers developed a scaffold technique that cuts cell-cultured meat production costs by up to 90%. The FAO projects livestock antimicrobial use could exceed 143,000 tonnes annually by 2040, with cumulative resistance-related losses potentially reaching $318 billion.

Week21

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Oshi raises $3M for plant-based seafood; ADM launches eight protein ingredients; Canada backs $15.1M whole-cut manufacturing project

Oshi secured $3 million to scale plant-based whitefish production across nearly 700 retail locations, while ADM introduced eight soy and pea protein ingredients targeting meat, poultry, and analogue applications in North America and Europe. Canada committed $4.9 million toward a $15.1 million initiative to automate whole-cut manufacturing using domestically sourced ingredients.

Week20

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Bunge opens $550M soy plant; EU bars Brazilian meat; cell-cultured products reach pets and courts

Bunge's $550 million soy protein concentrate facility in Indiana begins operations as the largest of its kind in the United States, while the EU blocks Brazilian meat imports over antimicrobial noncompliance effective September. Adamo Foods secures €10 million in EU funding for mycelium-based whole-cut meat analogues, and Upside Foods challenges Florida's cell-cultured meat ban in court.

Week17

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Roslin Institute achieves tenfold cell-cultured fat yield; FSANZ approves soy heart health claim; Planetary raises CHF 22 million

Roslin Institute researchers identified a protein marker enabling cattle stem cells to produce ten times more fat, a potential cost breakthrough for cell-cultured meat. FSANZ approved a heart health claim for isolated soy protein, Planetary raised CHF 22 million for mycoprotein, and U.S. states continued to diverge on cell-cultured meat regulation.

Week16

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Parima wins Singapore cell-cultured duck approval; BRIGHT and Novonesis partner on CO₂-to-protein fermentation

Parima secured Singapore Food Agency clearance for cell-cultured duck, its second approval in the city-state, while BRIGHT and Novonesis partnered to convert waste CO₂ into food-grade protein via microbial fermentation. Separately, Solar Foods patented its Solein gas fermentation process in the U.S. and Clean Food Group raised £5.2 million for a fermentation-derived oils facility.

Week15

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EU committee restricts meat labels for plant products; CSIRO exits fermentation research; Yale links livestock density to cancer

The European Parliament's AGRI committee advanced restrictions on terms like "bacon" and "steak" for plant protein products, while Canada moved to finalize labeling guidance for plant-based egg alternatives. A Yale study found cancer rates 4 to 8 percent higher in counties with the densest concentrations of industrial livestock operations across California, Iowa, and Texas.

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