TurtleTree obtains world's first self-GRAS for animal-free lactoferrin

We're away in Barcelona at the Regulating the Future of Food Conference for a few days and all of the below happens! We should leave the confines of our offices more often...!

We heard on the grapevine at Plant-Based World Expo in London that a certain producer of plant-based meat had scored a huge retail deal, and a week later we had confirmation. If its products are good enough for Michelin-starred chefs, they're certainly good enough for the cook-at-home consumer!

Elsewhere, we received the fantastic news that a friend of the platform has achieved a huge milestone by attaining the first-ever self-affirmed GRAS status for its precision fermentation-derived lactoferrin, aka 'pink gold', paving the way for commercialization in the USA. In Finland, there was equally good news for an innovator making proteins out of thin air, with an oversubscribed €8 million raise.

Disappointing, though, was the shocking research revealing that 18 billion animals a year die, without ever making it to consumers' plates. But could this be an important first push toward positive action?

Read on to find out more…

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