Meat, fish and meat substitutes that start-ups are currently being created in a laboratory with the help of Dutch corporation DSM, may be sold in stores for the first time within a year. The CEO of the food ingredients firm, Dimitri de Vreeze, confirmed the plan during the official launch of the next phase of development at the Biotech Campus in Delft. The company, along with insurance firm ASR, want the campus to grow into a “world leader” in life sciences.
DSM and ASR will invest half a billion euros in the campus over the next twenty years. This includes laboratories with equipment for making proteins and producing food using yeasts and other micro-organisms. With the investment, more of these machines can be produced, and both DSM and start-ups on the campus can further develop their products and processes more quickly. The companies can then press ahead by making the taste and texture of a product more similar to that of the animal variant.
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