Swiss gourmets were soon able to serve an experimental new delicacy: cultivated burgers.
The laboratory kitchen is the idea of the Dutch scaling mosa meat. The company, founded in 2013, cultivates beef from cells that were extracted from cows. The mixture is then formed into burgers that cannot be distinguished from the minced meat in the supermarket shelves. The happy cattle now strolls back onto the farm.
Mosa calls the product “the friendliest burger in the world”.
Cultivated meat could also reduce our CO2 footprints, but the concept first needs support for regulatory authorities around the world.
The Swiss authorities are the latest goal for Mosa. The company announced today that it was requested in Switzerland to “have a new approval of the food” that focuses on an ingredient: cultivated fat.
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Being a FAT-First is a local strategy. As with the EU, Switzerland requires that cultivated ingredients are submitted individually for regulatory approval.
Fat is a logical starting point. It plays A crucial role in the provision of taste, aroma and mouthfeel of beef, which makes it essential for the culinary experience.
Once approved, the fat can be mixed into powerful products with vegetable ingredients.
Maarten Bosch, CEO of Mosa, TNW said that the company is planning to sell burgers formed from the mix. The scaleup is also in conversations with vegetable food companies via the addition of cultivated fat to their products.
“By starting with cultivated fat, we pave the way to bring our first burgers onto the market and at the same time remain loyal to our long -term vision,” said Bosch.
The market for cultivated meat
The Swiss submission marks the latest milestone on the journey of Mosa for the commercialization of cultivation meat.
In 2013, the company's Chief Scientific Officer, Mark Post, founded the world's first burger. The pastlet cost a whopping € 250,000 and was also the most expensive burger in the world. Google co-founder Sergey Brin paid the invoice.
Mosa meat was founded three years later. Since then, the company has done a cultivation technology that eliminates the controversial fetal beef serum, acquired the first B Corp certificate in the industry and increased over EUR 130 million by investors such as Leonardo DiCaprio.
Mosa is now focusing on market routes.
Last year the company organized the first public tasting of cult meat in the EU. In January, Mosa submitted the second application of the union to the sale of cultivation meat. The first was for a foie grass grown in laboratory (where else?) France.
However, no cultivated meat for human consumption has yet been approved for sale across Europe. The only countries that have given the green light are Singapore, the USA and Isreal worldwide.
Singapore became the first in 2020. In contrast to Switzerland and the EU, the country evaluates fully cultivated meat products for approval.
In contrast, the new application of Mosa only focuses on fat. The company expects the approval process to take around 18 months.
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