Quotes from MEAT+POULTRY, January 19, 2024
By Caleb Wilson
Speakers at the second Cellular Agriculture Innovation Day of Tufts University said that cultured meat needs better infrastructure and production capacity to reach mass markets and lower cost.
Experts from various fields of cultured meat gathered at the event to talk about the urgent issues in several panels, one of which was about the difficulties of increasing production and improving facilities.
The founder and CEO of Ark Biotech, a bioreactor company, Yossi Quint, showed the situation of cultured meat facilities by referring to Samsung Biologics in South Korea, one of the biggest cell culture plants in the world.
“If Samsung Biologics were to be running every single minute of every single day for an entire year, they would produce less cultivated meat than the average Tyson facility produces in one day,” Quint said.
Quint said that the current production of Samsung Biologics, one of the largest cell culture plants in the world, would have to grow by about 10,000 times to match the production rates. To achieve this, they would need bigger bioreactors, easier access to cell media, and better filtration systems and bioprocess. They would also need to automate production because there are not enough qualified scientists to run such large operations.
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