2022年12月8日

信徒肉类公司位于北卡罗来纳州威尔逊的人造肉类制造工厂的效果图。简介:信徒肉类公司，前身为未来肉类技术公司，周三在北卡罗来纳州威尔逊市破土动工，据称这将是世界上最大的人造肉类工厂。该工厂将占地20万平方英尺，生产至少1万吨(11023吨)人造肉。信德投资1.2335亿美元在该设施上，这将在未来三年内创造100多个新的就业机会。许多人工养殖肉类公司都表示，他们计划在去年建造商业规模的设施，但信佛是第一家真正破土动工的公司。需要一个商业规模的工厂来生产足够多的肉类来服务相当数量的消费者。潜水洞察:在美国，人造肉正迅速从听起来像科学实验的东西变成人们在不久的将来就能吃的东西。总部位于以色列的Believer公司在去年12月完成3.47亿美元的B轮融资时宣布，将把其商业规模的工厂放在美国。该公司表示，选择北卡罗来纳州东部是因为该地区的人才库，以及该地区在整合技术解决方案以改善居民生活方面的声誉。信德长期以来一直是人造肉领域的领导者。 The company, founded in 2018, aims to produce meat grown from cells both quickly and inexpensively. Believer uses fibroblasts, a quickly growing kind of connective tissue cell, to make its meat. It also has devised ways to clean and reuse the growth media for the cells, which increases its efficiency and lowers its costs. As the company has improved its technology and scaled up with its pilot plant, which opened last year in Israel , it’s quickly reduced the cost of its products. Believer is one of the best-capitalized companies in the cultivated meat space, having raised nearly $388 million in its lifetime, according to the firm. It’s attracted a lot of attention from Big Food, with ingredients and commodity giant Archer Daniels Midland and Tyson Foods investing. In 2021, Nestlé announced it was working with Believer as it evaluates cultivated meat technologies and potential future products made from a hybrid of plant-based ingredients and cell-based meat. Believer does not yet have regulatory approval to produce and sell cultivated meat anywhere, but co-founder Yaakov Nahmias has said the company has been in close contact with the FDA about gaining approval for years. The only place in the world where cultivated meat is on the market is Singapore, which approved Eat Just’s cultivated chicken in late 2019. However, Believer may be getting closer to getting that green light. Last month, the FDA issued its first approval in the space: A no questions letter to Upside Foods for its cultivated chicken. The letter indicates regulators found nothing unsafe in Upside’s product. Upside’s facilities and products must now be approved by the USDA to go on the market. While Believer is a different company with different processes than Upside Foods, the fact that the FDA has moved forward with one approval means that more may be on the way. And with construction underway on a place to make that meat in the U.S., it could actually not be that far off from consumers’ plates nationwide. Recommended Reading