It was a pleasure to attend the formal launch of the National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC), congratulations to Anwesha Sarkar, Derek Stewart and the wider NAPIC team for this significant achievement! The centre was funded by £15m from BBSRC and Innovate UK and received further committed funds from partners. Likewise it was fascinating to hear talks and discussions from Tim Benton, Indy Kaur, Tom Jenkins, Rick Mumford and Louise Dye, on food system change, regulation and bottlenecks. It's an exciting time for alternative proteins in the UK. The Alternative Proteins Association is delighted to be partners of this exciting innovation centre, supporting the development of this crucial industry. #altproteins #foodsystems #foodtech #climatetech
Alternative Proteins Association
Food Production
London, England 985 followers
Representing and convening the UK alternative proteins industry.
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Bringing together companies, farmers, investors, NGOs, academics, scientists and entrepreneurs, the Alternative Proteins Association is helping the UK become a world leader in alternative proteins.
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- Food Production
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- 2-10 employees
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- London, England
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- Nonprofit
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- 2022
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We welcome the announcement that the UK government has funded the Food Standards Agency (FSA) first-of-its-kind cultivated meat regulatory 'sandbox'. President of the Alternative Proteins Association, Jeremy Coller said: “Today’s announcement shows the world that the UK government is serious about supporting British innovation and attracting international investment. The UK has the potential to be at the front of the pack in Europe’s projected £70B cultivated meat market, but only if investors know we are open for business. The creation of this sandbox is a fantastic step forward for growing British businesses.” We look forward to continue to collaborate with UK government, our members in industry and partners, to deliver the benefits of this innovative and high growth sector. #altprotein #cultivatedmeat #foodsystems #innovation #policy
🇬🇧🧫🥩 UK GOVERNMENT BACKS REGULATOR TO SPEED UP CULTIVATED MEAT APPROVALS Today, the UK government has awarded £1.6M to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to create a first-of-its-kind regulatory ‘sandbox’ for cultivated meat producers. The idea is to “support innovation through safety” by speeding up the timeline and lowering the costs related to regulatory clearance. Sandboxes comprise controlled environments for situations where scientific and technological innovation has outpaced existing regulation – a lot of companies are currently making cultivated meat, but the UK’s authorisation process is slow and congested. These sandboxes run for a limited period to help startups, researchers and regulators work together to develop new rules, standards and guidance. The investment for the Cell-Cultivated Products Regulatory Sandbox is part of the first round of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s Engineering Biology Sandbox Fund. In addition to the financing, the FSA said it is pressing ahead with plans to set up a system of international cooperation, which would see the UK greenlight cultivated meat products that have been approved by other countries. In a parallel effort, the government has also created a Regulatory Innovation Office to reduce the burden of red tape and accelerate public access to new technologies. It will work together with the Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom, the Department for Health and Social Care, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Robert E. Jones, president of trade association Cellular Agriculture Europe, said the move signposted the UK’s aim to be an innovation leader by “boosting its global competitiveness in the race to address food security and sustainability issues in our food systems”. “The UK has the potential to be at the front of the pack in Europe’s projected £70B cultivated meat market, but only if investors know we are open for business,” added Jeremy Coller, president of the Alternative Proteins Association. “The creation of this sandbox is a fantastic step forward for growing British businesses.” More information in the full article: https://lnkd.in/eWJuy8R4 #GreenQueen #altprotein #cultivatedmeat #foodsystems #foodtech #policy #sustainability #futurefoods
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We are proud to share that we’ve organised the first formal tasting of our Mosa Burger in The Netherlands. Participants included Dutch cattle farmers, food product developers and industry representatives who shared their candid tasting feedback with us. The goals for these tastings include assessing market readiness of products and collecting feedback from culinary experts for product development purposes. Maarten Bosch, our CEO said: "We are delighted to finally share our burgers with experts outside of the company, so they can help us create the best burgers possible. In this first tasting we specifically evaluated the potential of cultivated beef fat as an ingredient in a blend with plant based ingredients, as we know it is responsible for the flavour, aromas, mouthfeel and even sizzle people love from beef. We’ve been able to conclude that our cultivated fat has a very positive impact on the product quality This means that in addition to the cultivated beef for which we have submitted a regulatory approval request in Singapore, we can also elevate the culinary experience of plant based products and delight more beef lovers faster.” #mosaburger #cultivatedmeat #cravechange
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It is exciting to see GOURMEY submit cultivated food dossiers to UK Food Standards Agency amongst other key jurisdictions. GOURMEY's Foie Gras, made from cultivated duck cells, aims to provide a new option for fine dining enthusiasts worldwide. As the UK and Europe seek to enhance food security and reduce reliance on low-quality and environmentally harmful food imports, cultivated foods can complement existing agrifood value chains, serving as a powerful tool for long-term resilience. This brings us one step closer to creating new revenue opportunities for farmers to grow the feedstock we need for cultivating cells at large scale. Innovation and traditional farming can not only coexist but also support each other in building a future-proof food system, making farming more attractive for the next generation. #alternativeproteins #cultivatedfoods #foodinnovation
Pivotal milestone for GOURMEY and the cultivated foods ecosystem. We’re thrilled to announce that over the past few months, GOURMEY has requested market approval in five regions, filing applications with the US FDA, Singapore Food Agency, UK Food Standards Agency, Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office FSVO, and the European Commission. This achievement makes us the very first cultivated food company to file for approval in the EU. Complying with the rigorous standards of the world’s most advanced agencies on cultivated foods regulation, including the EU’s stringent novel food framework, is a testament to GOURMEY’s technology leadership, our commitment to safety, and the immense dedication of our team. We want to celebrate a massive team effort from all Gourmates, involving relentless work over the past few years to build a safe, resource-efficient, and commercially viable solution. We’ll first empower our culinary partners with our flagship cultivated duck product, offering a new choice for foie gras enthusiasts, chefs, and restaurants worldwide, followed by further sustainable and delicious foods as we continue to scale up. As Europe aims to boost food security and achieve sustainability goals, we are convinced that cultivated foods have strong potential to complement existing agrifood value chains, enhancing the long-term resilience of our food system. We look forward to continuing our close collaboration with regulatory authorities to introduce our products to the market. Special mention to the leadership of our Regulatory & Food Safety team: Hannah Lester, Brian Chun, Nadine Bongaerts-Duportet, Ph.D., and Victor SAYOUS. We are deeply thankful for all our partners, advisors, investors, and supporters. Thank you for being part of our journey—much more to come! Read more in POLITICO: https://lnkd.in/ejJUH_DW 👉 See our current openings: join.gourmey.com
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Group Leader and Reader at Imperial College London, Director of the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein, Director of the Microbial Food Hub
We are hiring managers and academics! The new Bezos Centre for Sustainable Proteins at Imperial College London is opening its first round of recruitment ⬇ We are looking for: -1 Centre manager 🛠️. Will be part of the leadership team, working closely with the directors to set the strategy. The Centre Manager will lead all operational activities. Apply ➡ https://lnkd.in/e-GYQeD2 -1 Head of Impact, Innovation and Growth 🚀 . Will participate in the strategic development and management of all growth, impact and innovation activities in the Centre as well as coordinate stakeholder engagement. Apply ➡ https://lnkd.in/e_iVPhYk -1 Marketing and Communications Lead 📢. Will develop the marketing and communication strategies and campaigns, and will maximise the visibility of the activities of the Centre and the sustainable protein field. Apply ➡ https://lnkd.in/eieeYMyK -1 Academic position 🧑🔬️ to work on alternative proteins available to all levels (lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, professor – equivalent to assistant, associate and full professor). Apply ➡ https://lnkd.in/eyK3m9_b Full info on the Job Descriptions, which are in the links above. Funded by the Bezos Earth Fund, the $30m Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein will apply cutting-edge Engineering Biology to accelerate the alternative protein revolution and transform global food systems, to make them more sustainable, healthy, resilient, and economically viable, by driving a step-change in consumption from conventional meat to alternative proteins. Uniting top academics, industry, policymakers and key stakeholders, the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein will be a reference institution for cultivated meat, plant-based and fermentation-based food and the synergies between them. Join us and help us make our food system more sustainable! ＃sustainableprotein ＃alternativeprotein ＃engineeringbiology ＃fermentation ＃cultivatedmeat ＃plantbasedmeat ＃precisionfermentation ＃cellularagriculture Good Food Institute Europe The Good Food Institute EIT Food Alt Protein Careers Alternative Proteins Association SynBioBeta Bridge2Food The Food and Drink Federation
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We are thrilled to share that, our member company Meatly, has received authorisation to sell cultivated pet food in the UK! This historic development is a testament to the forward thinking approach the UK can take. A huge congratulations to Owen Ensor and the entire team for navigating the rigorous process for authorisation. We are excited to see what's next for Meatly! #alternativeproteins #cultivated #petfood
Today is a momentous day for Meatly, as well as the European cultivated meat and pet food industries. Meatly has authorisation to sell in the UK. This makes us the first company in Europe to be authorised to sell cultivated meat, and the first in the world to get authorisation to sell cultivated pet food. Over the last 18 months, we’ve worked proactively with the UK’s FSA, DEFRA, and APHA to clarify the right regulatory pathway for cultivated pet food and pass the rigorous inspection process. They have now confirmed that we can sell product. This is not only momentous because we’re the first, but because we’ve done this in only two years, with £3.5m. That's dramatically less time and capital than other cultivated meat companies approved for sale. A huge thanks to the Food Standards Agency, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Animal and Plant Health Agency for their commitment to placing the UK at the forefront of food innovation. As ever, none of this would be possible without Helder and the dedication and commitment of the incredible Meatly team: Anastasiia, Zoe, Kim, Miru, Desiree, Magno, Jordan, Beatriz F., and Davide Stefanutti, as well as our fantastic private and public investors including Agronomics Limited and Pets at Home. We’re just getting started. This is the end of the beginning. There is so much more to come. 🐶 🚀 🎉 Read more: - Financial Times: https://lnkd.in/eMWzaCgQ - WIRED: https://lnkd.in/ej-wbMzH
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⚡ 💚 What a night! We co-hosted one of our tasting events in our Accenture London innovation centre, during #LCAW with our partners CPT Capital, Good Food Institute Europe & Alternative Proteins Association – we had delicious #altprotein #plantbased samples from: 🥦 symplicity foods 🍄 ENOUGH 🫘 Better Nature Tempeh 🚚 Foodhak 🥮 ALGAMA Foods ...and we learnt more about #cultivated, #molecularfarming & #biomaterials products and manufacturing capabilities thanks to: 🍃 Kyomei 🐷 Uncommon 🚀 Arda Biomaterials Thank you all for coming along to participate and share your innovations! 🌟🌟 And big thanks to the inspirational founders, Indy Kaur of Plant Futures and Benjamina Bollag of Uncommon for sharing views on some of the challenges and opportunities currently facing these emerging products and ingredients. 🚀🚀 The event followed the Coller Startup Competition finals, where we saw 5 startups pitching for £100k funding from CPT Capital – i loved being on the judging panel alongside Lesley Farrah Dorwling-Carter, Jamie Macfarlane and Louis Millon – it was a tough gig! Congrats to ReNewFood, Cultured AF, Cryo BioNova, Fish-ish for reaching the final 5.. 🥇🥇 Biggest congratulations go to the winner, Andrea Araiza Calahorra, Ph.D. who pitched MicroLub, a water-based, protein microgel that behaves like natural, oil-based lubricants. Their ingredient can be used as an oil or fat replacer and texture enhancer in plant-based foods and cosmetics 👏👏 so many different potential applications in food, beauty and beyond. Huge congrats! This is the best part of my job... the positive vibes within the food-tech community are infectious. And great to see the relentlessly hard-working entrepreneurs in food-tech connecting with investors & industry leaders – please get in touch if you'd like to participate in our next event! 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 Rachael Goude, John-Felipe Murphy, Linus Pardoe, Coco Hollamby, Harry Kalms, Jeremy Coller, Alan Wogan, Jim Laird, Chris Williams, Mark Curtis, Toby Siddall, Juliana Glezer, Edward Kennedy, Natalie Stewart, Lori Baran, Vlad Oncescu, PhD, Emily Kowal, Jenna Trescott, Oliver Wright #foodsystemtransformation #foodinnovation #foodtech #plantbased #plantbasedfood
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It’s great to see the Dutch public entity Invest-NL and the European Commission investing in promising and upcoming food companies such as Mosa Meat, an APA member. We hope that the UK will take a similarly proactive and innovative approach to supporting the growing alternatives protein industry such as smart regulations and investments in infrastructure. Congratulations to everyone at Mosa Meat. #cultivatedmeat #novelfoods #proteins
We are pleased to announce we are welcoming new and existing partners to help bring cultivated beef to consumers, as part of €40M in new capital raised to finance the next phase for the company. The oversubscribed round was led by Lowercarbon Capital and M Ventures . Investors include new government-backed partners like Invest-NL, the Dutch state-owned impact investor, partly with coverage by InvestEU, the European Commission program supporting initiatives that align with EU policy priorities, the Limburgs Energie Fonds (LEF) B.V. the regional fund supporting greenhouse gas emissions reduction and LIOF, the regional development agency for the Limburg province. New partners with a background in the conventional meat sector were also added, including the PHW Group, one of Europe’s largest poultry producers. Furthermore, XO Ventures, Doux Investments and other new investors joined existing investors to create a more diverse and resilient food system together. #cellularagriculture #cultivatedmeat #mosameat
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🚀 For students, PhDs, postdocs and academics from UK universities with a new idea or early stage start-up in alternative proteins - this competition is for you! We are very exciting to be partnering with CPT Capital and The Good Food Institute on this competition. The winning start-up will receive a £100k investment from CPT Capital. Please see below for further information and apply at https://lnkd.in/e8sMZVY2
We are excited to launch the 3rd edition of the Coller Startup Competition in partnership with Accenture, The Good Food Institute and the Alternative Proteins Association! 🚀 The competition is open to any students, PhDs, postdocs and academics from a UK university with a new idea or an existing early-stage venture aiming to remove animals from the global supply chain. The winning startup will receive a £100k investment from CPT Capital. As our founder Jeremy Coller says, “The UK has all the ingredients to be a global leader for state-of-the-art research and innovation in alternative proteins. We are supporting this competition in the hope that the next generation of UK students, researchers and academics will focus on the huge business and research opportunities available in alternative protein technologies to secure a sustainable future with animal-free alternatives. We look forward to being inspired by your ideas and passion to make a difference.” For more information and to enter the competition, scan the barcode on the flyer or visit: https://lnkd.in/ehsUxJnC Fiona Bennie & Rachael Goude from Accenture Nathan Ahlgrim, Ph.D. & David Hunt, PhD from The Good Food Institute John-Felipe Murphy from the Alternative Proteins Association Lesley Farrah Dorwling-Carter, Coco Hollamby, Mélody Violton, Harry Kalms, George Howard & Gavin Sullivan from CPT Capital
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We are excited to be partnering with The Future of Protein Production Chicago, which is taking place at McCormick Place on April 24th & 25th. Hear from over 85 speakers about the latest developments in #alternativeproteins. Let us know if you plan to attend! Register using our discount code to get 20% off your pass: APA1 You can find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eKGm6Z-D