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Manufacturing process for cultivated meat
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Manufacturing process for cultivated meat
Manufacturing process for cultivated meat is inefficient. Current production methods and technologies are resulting in low yields. Thus, it is leading to economic projections that is prohibiting its scalability. Therefore, the industry is looking for scalable manufacturing process for cultivated meat.
A new research now explains a cost-effective technique for manufacturing lab-grown animal proteins or cultivated meat from cells. Thus, improving yields. So far, the study reveals that continuous manufacturing might address the important challenges so of scalability and cost. Hence, it may potentially help making cultivated meat more accessible.
Cultivated meat
The founder of Believer Meats, and the cultivated meat industry and a multidisciplinary team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have explained the continuous manufacturing process for cultivated meat. This process uses tangential flow filtration system (TFF).
The new bioreactor assembly allows biomass expansion to 130 billion cells per L. Thus, achieving yields of almost 43 percent weight per volume. The process was continuously carried out over 20 days. Thus, this process enables daily biomass harvest. In addition to this, the research introduces an animal component-free culture medium at a relatively low cost. Therefore, this supports the long-term and high-density culture of chicken cells. According to the research team, they were inspired by the Ford’s automated assembly line. They believe it revolutionised the car industry 110 years ago.
Continuous manufacturing
The findings demonstrate that continuous manufacturing is enabling cultivated meat production as a much lower costs of the present costs. This is without resorting to genetic modification or mega-factories. Therefore, this technology brings us all closer to producing cultivated meat a viable project. It will be sustainable alternative to traditional animal farming too.
According to the President of The Good Food Institute (GFI) they applaud the spirit of openness. Thus, continues to characterise cultivated meat researchers and associated teams. They understand that showing the scientific possibilities of cultivated meat will benefit all scientists working in this domain. Thus far, the research represents a potential advance in the economic feasibility of cultivated meat. The study addresses previous concerns about high costs and low yields.
Production facility
So using this empirical data, the research team conducted a techno-economic analysis of a hypothetical 50,000 L production facility. Thus far, the analysis demonstrates that the cost of production of cultivated chicken meat may theoretically be reduced to a price similar to that of organic chicken.
Therefore, Principal Scientist at Cultivated Meat, and The Good Food Institute, emphasised the importance of the research findings. According to the Principal Scientist this empirical data is the cornerstone for any cost model of scaled cultivated meat production. Furthermore, this research is the first to provide real-world empirical evidence for the important factors. These factors influence the cost of production like media cost, metabolic efficiency and achievable yields in a scalable bioprocess design.
Thus far, research team acknowledge that various other factors may affect the final market price of cultivated meat. The research does underscore the potential of continuous manufacturing to lower production costs.
