San Leandro-based Sci-Fi Foods – which believes it has “a pretty clear shot at being the first company to bring cultivated beef to the market in the US” – claims to have scored an industry first by developing bovine cell lines that can grow in single-cell suspension, without microcarriers, enabling significantly higher cell densities, a key metric when it comes to cultivated meat economics.
As part of the latest global label war, France bans the use of words such as “steak” and “burger” on plant-based foods
France announced they would be banning the use of words like “steak” and “sausage” for plant-based foods. The ban was created in 2020 and will go into effect in October. “It will...
