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Six things to watch when cultivated meat and poultry is on the menu

Barak Zohar, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of R&D at Israel-based Ever After Foods, told Agri-Pulse his company’s production platform may offer one solution to the cost-efficiency and scalability limits many companies face. Their technology uses a patented 3D cell expansion environment that can process a high amount of cultivated meat with less space.

“Using our pilot system, we can get more than 10 kilograms of cultivated meat with only a total volume of 35 liters of medium,” Zohar said, which offers a 700% increase in productivity when compared to other platforms.

He added the process uses less of the feed, or medium, to duplicate the cells within the small bioreactors with columns in it.

“We have an advantage because in our process, we don’t need to do anything to separate the cells or tissues from the media because by design it’s already separated,” he said of the cells in a scaffolding-type of column. In addition, by design, the process can recycle the media, which offers additional cost savings.

Each company is working on making its own improvements. Ever After Foods plans to offer the technology in its own product line as well as form collaborations with other companies to utilize its technology.

https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/19668-six-things-to-watch-when-cultivated-meat-and-poultry-is-on-the-menu