SINGAPORE – In efforts to bring more slaughter-free chicken tenders, meatballs and even steaks to diners, a local cell-based meat manufacturer will set up an 80,000 sq ft plant in Changi by 2025.
With ambitions to produce at least 400 tonnes to 500 tonnes of cell-cultured meat a year, the firm, Esco Aster, could be running one of the largest cultivated meat plants in Singapore once the Changi facility – about the size of 1½ football fields – is fully operational.
The Republic has been taking the lead in the cultivated meat sector, being the first in the world to approve the novel food in late 2020, for Californian start-up Eat Just’s cell-based chicken nuggets.
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