INNOVATION 58 Alternative Proteins Magazine April 2025 nates over the full 21-day period (Figure 2). Industrial users further validated these findings in real-world settings. CONCLUSION As the BSF industry expands, ensuring consistency and predictability is essential for sustained production and market integration. Biological systems inherently introduce variability, making it challenging to maintain stable outputs. However, industrial consistency is crucial to securing broader adoption of BSF-derived products, particularly within aquaculture and pet food sectors. The extension of PauseM® shelf life and its increased capacity for higher neonate densities address these challenges, meeting the evolving demands of the market. A longer shelf life enhances risk mitigation, improves inventory management, and alleviates supply chain disruptions. Reliable breeding solutions enable producers to focus their resources on optimising rearing and processing efficiencies rather than navigating unpredictable biological constraints. FreezeM remains committed to bridging the gap between biology and engineering, fostering a resilient and scalable BSF industry. Version I 75K Neonate Survival After 14 Days on Different Suspension Feeds Survival Rate (%) 100 90 80 70 60 50 Version II PauseM® Version Figure 2. 75,000 neonates were seeded into units in the different versions. Units were incubatedfor 14 days in constant conditions of 20C and 70% RH. After suspension, neonates were grown for 8 days. Survival rates are calculated as a percent of the neonate number that was seeded About Dr. Adi Abada Dr. Adi Abada is Head of R&D Preservation and Product Manager at FreezeM, an agrotech startup specializing in Black Soldier Fly (BSF) breeding. Abada develops advanced preservation technologies for BSF breeding products and implements these innovations at insect farming operations of various scales. Adi Abada holds an MSc and PhD in Biomolecular Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science, researching trafficking factors in autophagy and algal-bacterial interactions. Her work is published in leading scientific journals, and she has presented at international conferences. She received the Dean of Faculty Fellowship and Clore Scholarship in 2018.
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