Revolutionising development of cultivated meat products through synergistic optimisation of growth-media fomulations

通过生长培养基配方的协同优化，彻底改变养殖肉制品的发展

• 批准号: 10046475
• 金额: $ 42.73万
• 依托单位: EXTRACELLULAR LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10046475
• 关键词: Revolutionising; development; cultivated; meat; products

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations predicts that food production must increase by 50% by 2050 to feed a global population of 10bn. Feeding this growing population with finite land and water resources is one of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Livestock agriculture currently consumes 70% of available arable land and 27% of global freshwater, and is one of the major contributors to climate change, air and water pollution, land degradation, loss of biodiversity, animal welfare concerns, and human health risks such as zoonotic disease and antibiotic resistance.Cultivated meat and seafood offer a sustainable alternative, produced through cultivation of terrestrial, avian, and aquatic animal cells and indistinguishable from conventional meat. Cultivated meat represents an enormous opportunity to decarbonise meat production, reduce land and water usage, slow biodiversity loss, and feed more people with fewer resources. Furthermore, cultivated meat alleviates ethical concerns over the treatment of animals, does not require any use of antibiotics, and has positive implications for food security in an evolving geopolitical climate.Despite this vast opportunity, development and scale-up of cultivated meat products is critically constrained by a lack of food-grade ingredients, long product development cycles, and the huge cost of equipment/manufacturing facilities. Extracellular is the first dedicated manufacturing partner to support cellular agriculture, accelerating the development and commercialisation of cultivated meat products. Our unique integrated approach consolidates a fragmented value-chain, enabling cultivated meat companies to develop better products faster, cheaper, and achieve scale at significantly lower risk. The Innovate UK project will deliver a range of proprietary food-grade growth-media solutions that enable product development costs and lead-times to be reduced by \>50%.

联合国粮食及农业组织（FAO）预测，到2050年，粮食产量必须增加50%，才能养活全球100亿人口。用有限的土地和水资源养活这一不断增长的人口是人类面临的最大挑战之一。畜牧业目前消耗了70%的可用耕地和27%的全球淡水，是气候变化、空气和水污染、土地退化、生物多样性丧失、动物福利问题以及人畜共患病和抗生素耐药性等人类健康风险的主要因素之一。和水生动物细胞，与传统的肉类没有区别。种植肉类代表了一个巨大的机会，可以使肉类生产脱碳，减少土地和水的使用，减缓生物多样性的丧失，并以更少的资源养活更多的人。此外，人工养殖肉类还能消除对动物治疗的伦理顾虑，不需要使用任何抗生素，在不断变化的地缘政治环境中对粮食安全具有积极意义。尽管存在巨大的机遇，但人工养殖肉类产品的开发和规模化受到食品级原料缺乏、产品开发周期长以及设备/制造设施成本高昂的严重制约。Extracellular是第一个专门支持细胞农业的制造合作伙伴，加速了人工养殖肉类产品的开发和商业化。我们独特的综合方法整合了分散的价值链，使养殖肉类公司能够更快、更便宜地开发出更好的产品，并以显著降低的风险实现规模化。Innovate UK项目将提供一系列专有的食品级生长培养基解决方案，使产品开发成本和交付周期减少50%以上。