Nutreco opens factory for lab-grown meat feed

Mosa Meat has opened a production facility in collaboration with Nutreco for powders to feed lab-grown meat. It is the first facility exclusively dedicated to these raw materials.

The facility has already delivered the first batch of 50 kilograms of lab-grown meat feed. The goal is for the factory to scale up production to several hundred kilograms per week.

Obstacle
In the development of lab-grown meat, efficiently feeding the cells is the biggest obstacle. Growing meat is still very expensive, and recent studies show that the ecological impact of lab-grown meat with current technology is much higher than that of conventional meat. With the new facility, Mosa Meat and Nutreco hope to make progress in terms of cost efficiency and emissions.

Incidentally, lab-grown meat feed will find little market in the Netherlands. The production of lab-grown meat is not allowed in the European Union. Lab-grown meat is already being produced and sold to consumers in the United States, Israel, and Singapore.

Matthijs Bremer

Matthijs Bremer is a market specialist in pork, beef, and poultry meat at DCA Market Intelligence. He also monitors the protein transition, keeping an eye on developments in cultured meat and meat substitutes.

m.bremer@farmerbusiness.com