In an earlier article about Higher Steaks, a leading UK food tech company, we said the company had revealed “the world’s first cultivated bacon and pork belly”. We have since been contacted by Mission Barns, another food technology company, kindly letting us know that it had unveiled its cultivated bacon earlier this year.
Mission Barns Gains USDA Approval for Cultivated Fat, Announces Restaurant & Retail Launches
Mission Barns has received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its cultivated pork fat, allowing the ingredient to enter the US market. The approval includes a grant of USDA inspection for the company’s San Francisco pilot facility and a label sign-off for its cultivated fat ingredient, which previously gained FDA approval earlier this year. Mission Barns is now preparing for limited, high-impact launches, including targeted product releases …
Mission Barns Receives FDA Approval for Cultivated Pork Fat, Announces Restaurant & Retail Launches
Cultivated meat company Mission Barns has received a “No Questions” letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is said to make the company the first in the world to receive regulatory clearance for cultivated pork fat. The letter indicates that the FDA has completed a rigorous evaluation of Mission Barns’ safety assessment for its cultivated fat, and is satisfied that the product is “as safe as comparable …
Mission Barns Revamps Single-Cell Suspension Pharma Bioreactors to Scale Cultivated Meat Production
Cultivated fat startup Mission Barns has engineered a new bioreactor to optimize cultivated meat production, aiming to replace the single-cell suspension bioreactors traditionally used in the pharmaceutical industry. “We’ve invented a novel bioreactor that allows us to scale the production of cultivated meat, whether it’s pork, beef, chicken, fat, or muscle,” Mission Barns explains in conversation with Cultivated X. Founded in Berkeley by Eitan Fischer, former director of cellular agriculture at fellow …
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Mission Barns: Cultivated Meat Products Ready for Market Launch Pending Regulatory Approval
US food tech Mission Barns has unveiled its new headquarters and cultivated fat production plant, claiming to be fully prepared to hit the market with its cultivated fat products. However, the San Francisco-based company must first wait for regulatory approval from the USDA and FDA before it can finally sell its cultivated fat and plant-based protein food products. Focusing on hybrid products of plant-based ingredients and animal fat cultivated from …
Mission Barns to Release Hybrid Chorizo Sausages With Cultivated Fat
Following its recent partnership with Chinese plant-based producer HEROTEIN, cell cultivated fat producer Mission Barns has announced a similar partnership in the US. Berkeley-based Mission Barns will team up with fellow Californian brand Silva Sausage to create a plant protein sausage using cultivated fat. “This ground-breaking partnership and production run is an important milestone toward cultivated meat technology becoming a reality” The landmark deal marks the first-ever scaled-up manufacturing of …
HEROTEIN Partners With Mission Barns to Bring First Hybrid Cultivated / Plant-Based Meat Products to China
HEROTEIN, formerly HERO Protein, announces it has entered into a strategic partnership with Berkeley-based cell cultivated fat producer Mission Barns to launch hybrid cultivated meat/plant-based meat products. The company states its intention to be the first to commercialize such products in China. The Shanghai company closed an $850K pre-seed funding round this February and in May announced that Vicky Lee, former CMO of McDonald’s Taiwan, had been onboarded as CEO, …
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Silicon Valley’s Mission Barns, Producer of World’s First Cultivated Bacon, Secures $24M to Upscale
Mission Barns, Founded in Berkeley, CA in 2018, announces it has raised $24 million in a Series A round to upscale its cell-cultured fat technology and build a pilot factory in the Bay Area. High profile investors in this round included Lever VC; Gullspang Re:Food (Oatly); Humboldt Fund (NotCo & Geltor); David Yeung’s Green Monday Ventures (Beyond Meat & Perfect Day); Enfini Ventures (Impossible Foods & Memphis Meats); and an …