NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE March 2025 115 Food-tech innovator Ever After Foods (EAF) and Swiss technology group Bühler announced an expansive cultivated meat collaboration to help food producers around the globe produce cultivated meat efficiently at mass scale. Bühler and Ever After Foods will work together to bring a commercial-scale cultivated meat production system, which is expected to allow commercial production at ten-fold lower scale than existing technologies, to market. Bühler aims to foster the development of equipment to enable market-ready, sustainable, healthy, and affordable cellular products that can address increasingly complex food system challenges, reduce environmental impact and improve food security. Ever After Foods provides the technology to deliver commercial-scale production systems specifically designed to meet the needs of the cultivated meat sector. “The global food chain faces significant challenges if we are to successfully and sustainably feed our growing population. How we produce and consume protein will continue to change, and requires a transition of our protein system to deliver this. Powering cultivated meat production at scale with a patented production system, Ever After Foods will help the food industry keep pace with the protein demands of a growing global population,” noted Ian Roberts, CTO at Bühler. Read more>> Buhler makes new collaboration for cultivated meat Finnish biotech company Enifer released the results of its latest Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), determining the Carbon Footprint (CFP) of its proprietary mycoprotein ingredient, PEKILO®- Pet. Enifer points out that the study reinforces its commitment to sustainability, revealing that PEKILO®Pet has an impressively low CFP, significantly lower than many common pet food ingredients. With the global pet population growing and studies suggesting that the ecological footprint of cats and dogs can rival that of humans, depending on their size and diet, it’s more important than ever to consider the environmental impact of pet nutrition. The study reports that the cradle-to-gate total CFP of PEKILO®Pet, covering fossil, biogenic, Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUC) emissions, is 0.93 kgCO₂e per kilogram of product. In contrast, soy protein concentrate produces up to 6.7 kgCO₂e per kilogram. This means that PEKILO®Pet has 86% lower carbon emissions, equivalent to driving 46 kilometers less in an average gasoline-powered car. PEKILO®Pet also performs better than insect protein powder (1.15 kg CO₂e) and produces five times fewer emissions than high-quality dry pet food ingredients like lamb (5.84 kg CO₂e). The primary contributor (47%) to PEKILO®Pet’s emissions is the production process, including electricity and steam usage. Raw materials account for 38% of emissions, while transportation contributes 14%. Read more>> New study reveals carbon footprint of Enifer's mycoprotein ingredient
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